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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
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
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
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
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

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