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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot

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
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
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
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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