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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

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
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
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

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

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