First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
DENIS DIDEROT
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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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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All children are essentially criminal.
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You have to make it happen.
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Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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The world is the house of the strong.
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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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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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One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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