Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
EMILE ZOLAI do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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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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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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 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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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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