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Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#best #day #deserve #every #every day

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#hysteria #i #pleasure #terror

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #done #effort #evil #fate

The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and profit without thought of long term consequence. If there is still a vague and oppressive sense of guilt, of wrongness and imbalance, this gnawing guilt spurs capitalism on to greater acts of consumption, more ... Read moreviolent attempts to subjugate nature, more totalizing efforts to create distractions. To the "rational materialist" mind, death is the end of everything; this thought feeds its rage against nature, which has placed it in this position of despair. ↗

— Daniel Pinchbeck

#death

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #being #clothed #derive #due

In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #greatness #life #literature #literature-quotes

Progress, this great heresy of decay. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#great #heresy #progress

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cemetery #drum #funeral #graves #heart

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ↗