Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
EMILE ZOLAHow 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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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