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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Denis Diderot

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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

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