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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

Emile Zola

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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Cold Happiness Herself Nature Passion Virtuous
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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Animal Appearance Connection Fate Fear Greatness Important Man
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Fruit Hands Lying Man Ruin
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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Burst Ground Power Shut Truth Yourself
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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Blame Creation Crime Life Love Money
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
EMILE ZOLA

Death Enjoyment Fingers Job Strangle
Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Animal Cruelty Protection Responsibility
An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Enough Life Time Woman Young
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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History Lesson People Time Tolerance
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Force Government Literature
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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Growth Ideas People Time Young
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Boy Exquisite Myself Sin
Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLA

People Respect
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Development Intelligence Travel
When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
EMILE ZOLA

Greatness Leaving Sorrow

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

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