Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
EMILE ZOLAA god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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