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“L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Petits Poemes en prose

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“L'enfer, c'est les autres.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Quand on n’a pas ce que l’on aime, faut aimer ce que l’on a.”
― Serge Gainsbourg

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
― Albert Einstein

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
― Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon