Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLABlow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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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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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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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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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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