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.
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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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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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 underground, it will but grow.
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