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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
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
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice

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