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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Charles Baudelaire

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Charles Baudelaire

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Charles Baudelaire

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Charles Baudelaire

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Charles Baudelaire

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Gregory Bateson

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Augusto Roa Bastos

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.