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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.

Denis Diderot

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
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
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope

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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