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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 17 total Charles Baudelaire quotes in our collection. Charles Baudelaire is known for saying 'It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

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

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

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