Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
EMILE ZOLAViolence 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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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