Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLAThrough the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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