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.
EMILE ZOLAGovernments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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.
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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for 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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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