I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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