Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
EMILE ZOLAOver all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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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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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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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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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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