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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.

Denis Diderot

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important

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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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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