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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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" If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. "

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" Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. "

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. "

" The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. "

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" When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. "