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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

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CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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