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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot

Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
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
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

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