A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
EMILE ZOLAThe vague torment of ambition.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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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.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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