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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote

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