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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot

There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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 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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

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