Lovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLAHow 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 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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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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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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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