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Denis Diderot has 133 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual…
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards…
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The world is the house of the strong.
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to…
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When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And…
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He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it…
— William Faulkner
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
— Eugene Ionesco
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All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the…
— Mike deGruy
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And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are…
— William Shatner
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of…
— Georges Cuvier
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Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
— Emilio Estevez
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject…
— Eudora Welty
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