"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly."
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Source: Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm, Denis Diderot (1815). “Historical & Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes, Selected from the Correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and Many Other Distinguished Persons, Between the Years of 1753 and 1790”, p.68
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