Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
EMILE ZOLAThe vague torment of ambition.
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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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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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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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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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