The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
Denis DiderotThe Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
Denis DiderotThe man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
Denis DiderotThe fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
Denis Diderot