"There exist certain individuals who are, by nature,……" — Charles Baudelaire

"There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them."

— Charles Baudelaire

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