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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

— Émile Zola

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Death and the sowing of seeds: and the life of bread growing up out of the earth.

La Terre (1887)

This woman was as necessary to his life as eating and drinking.

Thérèse Raquin (1867)

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

Pot-Bouille (1882)

As one must die, I would rather die of passion than boredom!

Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)

Could he love this one, without killing her?

La Bête humaine (1890)

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Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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