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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Emile Zola

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Fertilizer Thinking World
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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Cold Happiness Herself Nature Passion Virtuous
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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Ascend Cry Evil Heaven Life Necessary Physical
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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Burst Ground Power Shut Truth Yourself
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Dead Fake Forge Line Style
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
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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Creation Distress People Sadness
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Myself Repeat Triumph Ultimate
It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Assistance Deserve Humble Necessary Sufficiant
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
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!
EMILE ZOLA

Change Fools Promise Violence World
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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Cry Darkness Enlightenment Humanity Myself Passion Soul Suffering
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
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

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