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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
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Boredom Death Myself Passion
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Fertilizer Thinking World
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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Fibre Improvement Life Pain Rebel Surrender
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Growth Shut Truth Yourself
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Journey Road Struggle
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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Ascend Cry Evil Heaven Life Necessary Physical
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Each Other Happiness Love People
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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Death Enjoyment Fingers Job Strangle
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Fruit Hands Lying Man Ruin
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
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Blood Fertilizer Goodness Struggle
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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Divine Future Greatness Justice Light Sun Truth
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Force Government Literature
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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Burst Ground Power Shut Truth Yourself

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

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