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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.

Denis Diderot

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
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
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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.
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Anand Thakur
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
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.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur

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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