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

Emile Zola

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
EMILE ZOLA

Greatness Leaving Sorrow
The vague torment of ambition.
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Ambition One Liner
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
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
If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Allow Hack Myself Part Willing
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Myself Repeat Triumph Ultimate
The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Ordinary Pregnant Revolution
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
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Art Corner Creation Temperature
Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Eyes Myself Sight Stare Yourself
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Journey Road Struggle
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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Myself Praise Reality Temperature True Word
Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Animal Cruelty Protection Responsibility
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
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
Respectable people, What bastards!
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People Respect

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