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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Denis Diderot

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

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