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Denis Diderot

"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."

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"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."

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"There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father."

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"Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other."

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

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"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

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"My ideas are my whores."

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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

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