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

Denis Diderot

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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 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
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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

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