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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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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See Theory World

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