Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
DENIS DIDEROT
DENIS DIDEROT
Denis Diderot on order
Denis Diderot138 quotes“Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”
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