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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Emile Zola

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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Believe Better Force Intellect Live Love
Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Kiss Lover One Liner
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Development Intelligence Travel
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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Growth Ideas People Time Young
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
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
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Civilization Fall Myself Perfection Priest Stone
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Reason Strong Truth
Why 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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Blame Creation Crime Life Love Money
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
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
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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Confusion Dare Kind Mindset Nature
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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Animal Appearance Connection Fate Fear Greatness Important Man
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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Cold Happiness Herself Nature Passion Virtuous
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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Creation Distress People Sadness
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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Believe Happiness Myself Promise Science Truth

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

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