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

Denis Diderot

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
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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
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
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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