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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Denis Diderot

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion

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