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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.

Emile Zola

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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Earth Fire Nature Palace Sprite Water Wave
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
When 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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Blow Choke Force Truth
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Impress Myself Quality Quantity
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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Liberal Myself Observation Smile Time
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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Religion Retreat Science
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Art Boundary Human Incapacity Limitation
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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Death Food Load Myself Quantity
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Development Intelligence Travel
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Boredom Death Myself Passion
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
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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Believe Happiness Myself Promise Science Truth
Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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Dreams Fear Happiness Oneself Regret
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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Artist Man Nurtue Poet Talent
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Artist Live Loud Myself
Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Eyes Myself Sight Stare Yourself
Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Kiss Lover One Liner
In 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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End Gratitude Life Love People Thinking World
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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Fear Fools School Teaching Wrong
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
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Force Government Literature
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Drugs Myself Perfection Regret
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Reason Strong Truth
The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Ordinary Pregnant Revolution
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
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Stop Truth Way

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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