The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. - Charles Baudelaire

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You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Generations, Ants, Holes, Dug, Locutions, Profundity

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To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

Divine, Dream, Magnificently, Running, Runs, Strong

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Beauty, Ingredient, Ingredients, Necessary, Strangeness

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

Drunk, Earth, Horrible, Wine, Wish

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Done, Except, Literature, Nothing, Perseverance

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Art, Color, Infinite, Mean, Towards, Word

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I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

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Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!

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We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

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