Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
EMILE ZOLAIt 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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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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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