A quotation from Baudelaire

This life is a hospital in which every patient is haunted by the desire to change beds. This one wants to suffer in front of the stove, and that one believes he will recover next to the window.

[Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit. Celui-ci voudrait souffrir en face du poêle, et celui-là croit qu’il guérirait à côté de la fenêtre.]

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet, essayist, art critic
Le Spleen de Paris (Petits Poèmes en Prose), No. 48 “Any Where Out of the world” (1869) [tr. Kaplan (1989)]

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Le Spleen de Paris (Petits Poèmes en Prose), No. 48 "Any Where Out of the world" (1869) [tr. Kaplan (1989)] - Baudelaire, Charles | WIST Quotations

This life is a hospital in which every patient is haunted by the desire to change beds. This one wants to suffer in front of the stove, and that one believes he will recover next to the window.   [Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est...

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A quotation by Nightingale, Florence

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) English social reformer, statistician, founder of modern nursing

Cassandra (1860)

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A quotation by Taylor, A. J. P.

It is always tempting when you have political discontent in your own country to say it is the fault of some other country and not of your own government.

A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990) British historian, journalist, broadcaster [Alan John Percivale Taylor]

How Wars Begin (1979)

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