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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.

Emile Zola

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Enough Life Time Woman Young
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Each Other Happiness Love People
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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Religion Retreat Science
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Stop Truth Way
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Dead Fake Forge Line Style
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Charitable God Kindness Monster Punishment Yourself
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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Delight Garden Growth Leaving Myself Passion
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Beginning Calculation Fierce Peasant
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Growth Shut Truth Yourself
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Photography View Yourself
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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Myself Praise Reality Temperature True Word
My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Cry Fire Myself Protest Soul
If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Allow Hack Myself Part Willing
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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Affirmation Art Demand Negotiation Rule Society
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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End Gratitude Life Love People Thinking World
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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Ascend Cry Evil Heaven Life Necessary Physical

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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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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