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...

A quotation by Shaw, George Bernard

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic

Man and Superman, Act 4 [Mendoza] (1903)

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WIST - Shaw, George Bernard | Man and Superman, Act 4 [Mendoza] (1903)

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. See Wilde, eleven years earlier. More discussion quote: There Are Only Two Tragedies. One Is Not Getting What One Wants, and the Other Is Getting It –...

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