Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
EMILE ZOLAYes! 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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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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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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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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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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