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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself

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