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Quotation by Denis Diderot
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Apology for the Abbé de Prades (1752)"Conversation Between d'Alembert and Diderot" D'Alembert's Dream (written 1769, published 1830)Conversations with a Christian Lady (1777)Conversations with a Christian Lady (written 1774, published 1777)"Correspondence of Ideas with the Motion of Organs" Elements of Physiology (written 1774-1780, published 1875)Related Subjects
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How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), French philosopher, encyclopedist, dramatist, novelist, art critic. Salon of 1767 (1798), Oeuvres esthétiques, p. 644, Paris, Garnier Flammarion (1988).
Meditation by Diderot upon viewing the landscapes depicting ruins by the French contemporary painter Hubert Robert.
Meditation by Diderot upon viewing the landscapes depicting ruins by the French contemporary painter Hubert Robert.
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