The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLAWhen a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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