A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
EMILE ZOLAIf you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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