In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for 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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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