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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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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art
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Charles Baudelaire
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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All sins cast long shadows. – Proverb

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Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins. – Orson Scott Card

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The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him. – Italian Proverb

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Make peace with man and war with your sins. – Proverb

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