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Denis Diderot quote: "Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon..."

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

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There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were. Charles Bukowski
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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. J. G. Holland
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...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself. Louisa May Alcott
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