In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLAIf something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Over 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.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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