The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLAWhy then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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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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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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