Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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