"Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan."
— Charles Baudelaire

January 1, 1970

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There are in every man, at all times, two simultaneous tendencies, one toward God, the other toward Satan.