The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
EMILE ZOLAWhen 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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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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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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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 conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Everything is only a dream.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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