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Most Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
- It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
- France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always…
- The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,…
- The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the…
- A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would…
- Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster