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I pray that every passing hour Your hearts may bruise and beat, I pray that every step you take May bruise and burn your feet.


Emile Cammaerts

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EMILE ZOLA If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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EMILE CAPOUYA The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
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EMILE ZOLA Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.
EMILE GABORIAU The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundi...
EMILE DURKHEIM The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
EMILE ZOLA There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a c...
EMILE ZOLA I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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EMILE DURKHEIM A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks qu...
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EMILE DURKHEIM Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplatio...
EMILE DURKHEIM Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special c...
EMILE DURKHEIM While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon indivi...
EMILE DURKHEIM It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply...
EMILE DURKHEIM Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found...
EMILE DURKHEIM From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. ...
EMILE DURKHEIM The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with o...
EMILE DURKHEIM There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
EMILE CHARTIER A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young wha...
EMILE CAPOUYA Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplati...
EMILE DURKHEIM If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLA One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracte...
EMILE DURKHEIM Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, socia...
EMILE DURKHEIM Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the...
EMILE GALLE There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high tr...
EMILE LAHOUD Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our...
EMILE GALLE The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of ele...
EMILE DURKHEIM There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, m...
EMILE DURKHEIM If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the g...
EMILE GALLE A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being ...
EMILE DURKHEIM Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The fir...
EMILE DURKHEIM The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indi...
EMILE ZOLA School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy
EMILE CAPOUYA One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLA When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination ...
EMILE COUE 'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger jus...
EMILE HIRSCH Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
EMILE GALLE The blood was gushing out of his throat.
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BROTHER EMILE We asked her not to stay.
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BROTHER EMILE Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLA Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall ...
EMILE ZOLA I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; the...
EMILE ZOLA To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual u...
EMILE DURKHEIM The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equ...
EMILE DURKHEIM Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; ...
EMILE DURKHEIM The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distingu...
EMILE DURKHEIM So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the...
EMILE WIECHERT When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination ...
EMILE COUé From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental po...
EMILE DURKHEIM Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be una...
EMILE DURKHEIM Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
EMILE COUE It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the tim...
EMILE DURKHEIM It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
EMILE FAGUET Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.]
EMILE NELLIGAN A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a...
EMILE DURKHEIM Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
EMILE LAHOUD Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
EMILE COUE The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exha...
EMILE DURKHEIM To get something done, you must first try to get it done.
EMILE JOBITY The meaning of life is to exist, to exist is to have meaning, to have meaning is to obtain the truth...
EMILE JOBITY We are made together with flesh and bones, but held together by hope and prayer.
EMILE JOBITY If God created a Perfect world, we would all be looking for problems, since he created an imperfect ...
EMILE JOBITY I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I car...
EMILE ZOLA The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the l...
EMILE DURKHEIM I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and whi...
EMILE ZOLA Every day in every way I'm getting better and better
EMILE COUE I am always hard at work on the mind and smart at work on the job.
EMILE JOBITY Of course we can dream! Dreams are free ------ Reality is expensive.
EMILE JOBITY Babies are unique novel gifts sent to us by God without the product information, but it may take you...
EMILE JOBITY To contend with persons or situations we find to be stressful is to survive. To enjoy the company or...
EMILE JOBITY Contentment is not to be confused with gratitude or even acceptance. Of those two drafts one can dri...
EMILE JOBITY I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they ...
EMILE GAUVREAU Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science o...
EMILE DURKHEIM I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a...
EMILE HIRSCH On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 da...
EMILE HIRSCH I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because o...
EMILE HIRSCH Everybody wanted to know the whole truth based on facts and irrefutable evidence, a truth that would...
EMILE LAHOUD One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLA Since the day a man had the criminal ability to profit by another man's labour, since that very same...
EMILE POUGET A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young wh...
EMILE CAPOUYA If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live o...
EMILE ZOLA Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on th...
EMILE ZOLA If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explo...
EMILE ZOLA Society is not an empirical fact, definite and observable; it is a fancy, a dream with which men hav...
EMILE DURKHEIM The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundi...
EMILE DURKHEIM I am here to live out loud
EMILE ZOLA Even if he decides to run, pan-blue voters may think of him as veteran who is refusing to give the n...
EMILE SHENG A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of mart...
EMILE BOUGAUD If in our day there are so many men that pass before the Cross wagging their head, who gaze at our a...
EMILE BOUGAUD 'Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety
EMILE ZOLA This new attempt aims to spread fear among the safe citizens and ... to keep tension and fear persis...
EMILE LAHOUD We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of ...
EMILE HIRSCH Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are...
EMILE HIRSCH I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that t...
EMILE ZOLA In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLA I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
EMILE HIRSCH Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it&...
EMILE ZOLA Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
EMILE ZOLA In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles...
EMILE ZOLA The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLA One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know eve...
EMILE ZOLA People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, a...
EMILE ZOLA When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.
EMILE ZOLA I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
EMILE ZOLA If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gon...
EMILE HIRSCH The raids confirm the anti-peace attitude of Israeli leaders regardless of their local affiliations,
EMILE LAHOUD If (Chen Che-nan) is sentenced, it gives the impression that he's not protected by the law and gives...
EMILE SHENG This is the best case scenario as it does not involve the president and his wife.
EMILE SHENG I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.
EMILE SHENG What Ma should do now is not get involved. He should take the chance to establish a nomination mecha...
EMILE SHENG Of course there are people in the Nationalist Party who think that because the party can have good r...
EMILE SHENG So we are reassessing this whole area.
EMILE OKAL The bottom line is that we have to be very humble.
EMILE OKAL The cold shower we got was Sumatra. We have a 9.3 on our hands. You got a point that violates the pl...
EMILE OKAL We didn't expect such a big earthquake in that location.
EMILE OKAL The situation is delicate but the country is under control,
EMILE LAHOUD It is not the right time
EMILE LAHOUD All this weaponry is coming to the National Lebanese Army, ... All is being taken by the army and th...
EMILE LAHOUD I accept it democratically and will act accordingly, ... I will persist in my career as a politician...
EMILE LAHOUD [Addressing unspecified people he named as] Gebran, Avo and Rita, ... as Lebanon had been 15 years a...
EMILE LAHOUD I will continue to fulfil my responsibilities to safeguard the constitution, Lebanese laws and the i...
EMILE LAHOUD We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
EMILE CHARTIER Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
EMILE CHARTIER Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
EMILE CHARTIER By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a ...
EMILE DURKHEIM Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning...
EMILE HIRSCH A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone,...
EMILE HIRSCH Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN an...
EMILE HIRSCH It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in ...
EMILE DURKHEIM We had overflow all the way up here. Our hotels were more full and our traffic was heavier. It wasn'...
SANDY EMILE With the current technology, I now agree with non-believers. We should no longer say the Bible is li...
IBRAHIM EMILE Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own...
EMILE DURKHEIM The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectaria...
EMILE DURKHEIM Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
EMILE DURKHEIM One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracte...
EMILE DURKHEIM There are two types of men: the great and the small.
EMILE DURKHEIM It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to under...
EMILE DURKHEIM You know it's easy here to buy journalists.
EMILE LAHOUD The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the...
EMILE LAHOUD People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.
EMILE LAHOUD It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give...
EMILE HIRSCH I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.
EMILE HIRSCH There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.
EMILE HIRSCH I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an...
EMILE HIRSCH In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.
EMILE HIRSCH How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?
EMILE HIRSCH There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's h...
EMILE HIRSCH I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks t...
EMILE HIRSCH I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.
EMILE HIRSCH I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and...
EMILE HIRSCH Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your ...
EMILE HIRSCH The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at an...
EMILE HIRSCH I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.
EMILE HIRSCH Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's eq...
EMILE M. CIORAN Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
EMILE M. CIORAN The Universal view melts things into a blur.
EMILE M. CIORAN There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they ...
EMILE HENRY GAUVREAU If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is tru...
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
EMILE M. CIORAN The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
EMILE M. CIORAN A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
EMILE M. CIORAN Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
EMILE M. CIORAN The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose atte...
EMILE M. CIORAN Our first intuitions are the true ones.
EMILE M. CIORAN Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
EMILE M. CIORAN Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
EMILE M. CIORAN Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
EMILE M. CIORAN Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
EMILE M. CIORAN Word - that invisible dagger.
EMILE M. CIORAN Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
EMILE M. CIORAN The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
EMILE M. CIORAN No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
EMILE M. CIORAN Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
EMILE M. CIORAN Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately consci...
EMILE M. CIORAN Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
EMILE M. CIORAN Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
EMILE M. CIORAN Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
EMILE M. CIORAN My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderer...
EMILE M. CIORAN Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor ...
EMILE M. CIORAN Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
EMILE M. CIORAN We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
EMILE M. CIORAN A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
EMILE M. CIORAN The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
EMILE M. CIORAN Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
EMILE M. CIORAN So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
EMILE M. CIORAN