They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
EMILE ZOLAIf 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Everything is only a dream.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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