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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.

Emile Zola

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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Growth Ideas People Time Young
Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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Change Fools Promise Violence World
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Blood Fertilizer Goodness Struggle
Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Affirmation Art Demand Negotiation Rule Society
An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Enough Life Time Woman Young
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Impress Myself Quality Quantity
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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Cry Darkness Enlightenment Humanity Myself Passion Soul Suffering
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Civilization Fall Myself Perfection Priest Stone
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Drink Eat Ourselves Sacred Soul
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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History Lesson People Time Tolerance
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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Each Other Heart Need Secret Talk Understand Word. Confession
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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Cold Happiness Herself Nature Passion Virtuous
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Artist Live Loud Myself
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Boredom Death Myself Passion
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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Liberal Myself Observation Smile Time

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