In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLABlow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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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 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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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