If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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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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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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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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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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 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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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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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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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