Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLAI am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Everything is only a dream.
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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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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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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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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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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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