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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his senti

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. – Charles Baudelaire

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

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Insults
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Charles Baudelaire
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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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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. – Will Rogers

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. – Søren Kierkegaard

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. – Oswald Chambers

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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. – Jonathan Swift

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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Not even old age knows how to love death. – Sophocles

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