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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Denis Diderot

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

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