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““a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)””

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

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“Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and I accuse…

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“vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)”

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“Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins, the choir-boys…

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

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“A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be founded on a massacre, like many illustrious families." --Monsieur de Carnavant”

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe…

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