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Intimate journals

Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)
  
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CONTENTS
  
ILLUSTRATIONS
  
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
  
INTRODUCTION
  
INTIMATE JOURNALS

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MY HEART LAID BARE
  
A SELECTION OF CONSOLING MAXIMS UPON LOVE

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XLI

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

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in descent. It is to this last that love for woman and
intimate conversations with animals, dogs, cats,
etc. . . . must be ascribed. The joys which derive
from these two loves are appropriate to the nature
of these two loves.

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