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• Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.
  -- Charles Baudelaire...
• This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)...
• Love is the desire to prostitute oneself. There is, indeed, no exalted pleasure that cannot be related to prostitution.
  -- Charles Baudelaire...
• At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything
  every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship....
• What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
  -- Charles Baudelaire...
• Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go a west as distant and fair.
  ..We dream all night of those mountain-ridges on the horizon....
• A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled.
  Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life....
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog.
  But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed....