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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Denis Diderot

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
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 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

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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