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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Emile Zola

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
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
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Beginning Calculation Fierce Peasant
Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Affirmation Art Demand Negotiation Rule Society
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Drugs Myself Perfection Regret
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
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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Each Other Heart Need Secret Talk Understand Word. Confession
Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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Fibre Improvement Life Pain Rebel Surrender
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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Beautiful Intensity Myself Perfection Struggle
Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Blow Myself Need See Thinking
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Dead Fake Forge Line Style
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
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Ability Artist Gift Hard Work Talent
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Force Government Literature
Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Animal Cruelty Protection Responsibility

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

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