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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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.
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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
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

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