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.
EMILE ZOLAParis flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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