Quote by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

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

• It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

• 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.

• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

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