Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLAThe day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Everything is only a dream.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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 people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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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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