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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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 best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing

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