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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.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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

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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