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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

One Liner Yourself
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Comedy Oneself Play World
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
DENIS DIDEROT

See Theory World
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
DENIS DIDEROT

Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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