I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLAIn 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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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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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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 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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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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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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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