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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Denis Diderot

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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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Control Order People Yourself
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

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