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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Denis Diderot

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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