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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. – Charles Baudelaire

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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. – Charles Baudelaire

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. – Charles Baudelaire

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. – Charles Caleb Colton

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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. – Thomas Edward Brown

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I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. – Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam

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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. – Samuel Smiles

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