Charles Baudelaire Quotes
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Quotes to Explore
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
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The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
