Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Je ne conçois guère (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcelé?) un type de Beauté où il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuyé sur - d'autres diraient: obsédé par - ces idées, on conçoit qu'il me serait difficile de en pas conclure que le plus parfait type de Beauté virile est Satan, - à la manière de Milton.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.
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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
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Every man and every woman is a star.
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But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.
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I have found the most beautiful side of the flowers in the fallen flowers.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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I personally am not conscious of my accent.
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I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
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You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'
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Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.
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The first telephones cost a thousand dollars and they were about that big! We all remember that!
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother … had found true feminine fulfilment.
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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
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Je ne conçois guère (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcelé?) un type de Beauté où il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuyé sur - d'autres diraient: obsédé par - ces idées, on conçoit qu'il me serait difficile de en pas conclure que le plus parfait type de Beauté virile est Satan, - à la manière de Milton.
