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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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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.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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 road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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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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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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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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