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.
EMILE ZOLAPerfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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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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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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