The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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The vague torment of ambition.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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