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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Emile Zola

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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Delight Garden Growth Leaving Myself Passion
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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Confusion Dare Kind Mindset Nature
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Dead Fake Forge Line Style
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Fertilizer Thinking World
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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Myself Praise Reality Temperature True Word
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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Growth Ideas People Time Young
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
EMILE ZOLA

Ascend Cry Evil Heaven Life Necessary Physical
Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Blow Myself Need See Thinking
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Drink Eat Ourselves Sacred Soul
Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
EMILE ZOLA

Affirmation Art Demand Negotiation Rule Society
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
EMILE ZOLA

Religion Retreat Science
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Art Boundary Human Incapacity Limitation
Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Kiss Lover One Liner
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Force Government Literature
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Ability Artist Gift Hard Work Talent
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Journey Road Struggle

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

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