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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one

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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