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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Emile Zola

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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Cheek Kiss Lover Search
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Each Other Happiness Love People
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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Grave Illusion Oneself Past
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Reason Strong Truth
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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Beautiful Intensity Myself Perfection Struggle
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
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
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Development Intelligence Travel
The vague torment of ambition.
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Ambition One Liner
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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Divine Future Greatness Justice Light Sun Truth
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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Dreams Fear Happiness Oneself Regret
Respectable people, What bastards!
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People Respect
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Fools Lying Sale Tears Virgin
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Fertilizer Thinking World

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