• There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

  Charles Baudelaire
  French poet 1821-1867
  

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1. contemplation
2. nevertheless
3. mysterious
4. themselves
5. impulse
6. thought

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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. by : Charles Baudelaire

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