• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

  Charles Baudelaire
  French poet 1821-1867
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. unfortunately
2. distastefully
3. utilitarian
4. instead
5. impulse
6. reverie

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. by : Charles Baudelaire

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