An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
EMILE ZOLASin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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