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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Denis Diderot

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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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

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