Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
EMILE ZOLAOver 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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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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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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