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 ZOLAIf I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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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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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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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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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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Everything is only a dream.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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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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