Everything is only a dream.
EMILE ZOLAThe 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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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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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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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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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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