Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
EMILE ZOLAThe fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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