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The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Lovers are made by a kiss.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

When they got back into the carriage they felt greater strangers than before.

I am here to live out loud.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy
love which creates life?

they seemed to be greater strangers than before

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.

It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?
'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

In the sudden change that had come over her heart she no longer recognized herself

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter.

Art for me ... is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The couple fell one atop of the other, struck down, finding consolation, at last, in death.

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

She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Everything is only a dream.

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

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

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.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?

With his mouth open, he gave off that alcoholic smell that you get from an old brandy cask when you take out the bung.

After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

O Almighty God, O Divinity, Helpful Power, whoever, whatever Thou mayst be, take pity upon poor mankind and make human suffering cease! All

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.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair

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.

...it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...

I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

such a strange look of repugnance and horror

Respectable people... What bastards!

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

I am an artist ... I am here to live out loud.

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.