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The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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 have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild

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