The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
EMILE ZOLASin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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