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• The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• philosophers
• destruction
• succeeded
• passions
• tortures
• complete

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