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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Emile Zola

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
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
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Each Other Happiness Love People
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
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Reason Strong Truth
Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Eyes Myself Sight Stare Yourself
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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Change Fools Promise Violence World
The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Ordinary Pregnant Revolution
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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Death Enjoyment Fingers Job Strangle
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Stop Truth Way
It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Assistance Deserve Humble Necessary Sufficiant
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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Burst Ground Power Shut Truth Yourself
It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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Enough Happiness Hollow Joy Live Strict Virtue Woman
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
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Photography View Yourself
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

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

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