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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-t

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. – Charles Baudelaire

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We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. – Charles Baudelaire

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Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. – Anon.

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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. – W. H. Auden

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