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If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source

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