When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLASin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is only a dream.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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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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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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