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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Denis Diderot

I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

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