It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
EMILE ZOLAA god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Everything is only a dream.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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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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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.
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