One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLAThey 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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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!
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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I 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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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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