If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
EMILE ZOLAI am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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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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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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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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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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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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