Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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 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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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 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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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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