The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLASin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Everything is only a dream.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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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.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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