There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

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Oneself

I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Mad Mindset
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Order Ordinary
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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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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Order
My ideas are my whores.
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Whore
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Oneself
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Partner Population
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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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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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Chance
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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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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Distance Infinite Mad Plain Tower
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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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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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
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Inflict
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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