It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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 day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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