Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
EMILE ZOLAEverything is only a dream.
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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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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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