Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
EMILE ZOLAIn 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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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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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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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