The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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 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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