Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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My ideas are my whores.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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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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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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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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