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Charles Baudelaire
“Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?”
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal

Hermes Trismegistus
“80. What is God? The immutable or unalterable good.
81. What is man? An unchangeable evil.”
Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum: The Divine Pymander

Oscar Wilde
“People whose desire is solely for self-realisation never know where they are going. They can’t know. In one sense of the word it is of course necessary, as the Greek oracle said, to know oneself: that is the first achievement of knowledge. But to recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? When the son went out to look for his father’s asses, he did not know that a man of God was waiting for him with the very chrism of coronation, and that his own soul was already the soul of a king.”
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Charles Baudelaire
“When I was young I lived a constant storm,
Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through,
So in my garden few red fruits were born,
The rain and thunder had so much to do.

- The Enemy
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

Friedrich Nietzsche
“The happiness of my existence, its unique character perhaps can be found in its fatefulness: to speak in a riddle, as my father I have already died, as my mother I still live and grow old. This double origin taken as it were from the highest and lowest rungs of the ladder of life at once decadent and beginning — this if anything explains that neutrality, that freedom from bias in regard to the general problem of existence which perhaps distinguishes me. My nose is more sensitive than any man that has yet lived as to signs of ascent or decline. In this domain I am a true master — I know both sides for I am both sides.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

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