It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLAWhat will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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