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  1. Denis Diderot _ Jacques the Fatalist: And His

    You are going to say that I am amusing myself and that because I do not know what to do with my two travellers any more, I am throwing myself into allegory, which is the usual recourse of sterile minds.
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  2. Denis Diderot _ Jacques the Fatalist: And His

    There comes a moment when nearly all young girls and young boys become melancholic. They are disturbed by a vague uneasiness which extends to everything and can find no consolation. They look for solitude. They weep. The silence of the cloister moves them and the image of peace which seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first movements of their developing emotions for the voice of God calling them and it is at the precise moment when nature is calling to them that they embrace a life which is contrary to the laws of nature.
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  3. Denis Diderot _ Jacques the Fatalist: And His

    And he added that prudence in no way assured us of success but consoled us and excused us in failure.
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  4. Denis Diderot _ Jacques the Fatalist: And His

    Because, without knowing what is written up above, none of us knows what we want or what we are doing, and we follow our whims which we call reason, or our reason which is often nothing but a dangerous whim which sometimes turns out well, sometimes badly.
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  5. Denis Diderot _ Jacques the Fatalist: And His

    It was ordained that you would have the title to the thing and I would have the thing itself.
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  6. Denis Diderot _ Jacques the Fatalist: And His

    Master, master, you obviously haven't thought about this at all. We only ever feel sorry for ourselves, believe me.
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  7. Denis Diderot _ Jacques the Fatalist: And His

    To speak to you frankly, Reader, I find that you are the more wicked of the two of us. How satisfied would I be if it were as easy for me to protect myself from your calumny as it is for you to protect yourself from the boredom or the danger of my work!
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