Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
EMILE ZOLAThrough the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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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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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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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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