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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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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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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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