Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLANothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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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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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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