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 ZOLAWhen a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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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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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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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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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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