"Nothing can be done except little by little."

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Source : Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

Charles Baudelaire

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“I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.”
“The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson (2008). “Maurice Guest”, p.18, Sydney University Press
“Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.”
“No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”
“Nowadays Iâ€™m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybodyâ€™s like â€œI can reverse the polarity of your ions!â€ Like in one big flash everybodyâ€™s Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I donâ€™t understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but itâ€™s true.”
“My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.”
“Expect poison from the standing water.”
“With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.”

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