Quote by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

• We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

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

• There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.