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

Denis Diderot

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild

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