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.
EMILE ZOLAThe day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The vague torment of ambition.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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 do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Violence 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!
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