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!
EMILE ZOLAThese young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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