Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
EMILE ZOLALovers are made by a kiss.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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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 talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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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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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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Everything is only a dream.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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