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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Denis Diderot

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
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
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

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