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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
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
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive

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