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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from de

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

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City Life, Cities
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Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art
Author
Charles Baudelaire
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Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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To labor is to pray. – Motto of the Benedictines

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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. – Samuel Johnson

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A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. – Geoffrey Norman

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