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My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

Denis Diderot

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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
DENIS DIDEROT

Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
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

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