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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Denis Diderot

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

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