If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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