It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
EMILE ZOLAThrough the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Everything is only a dream.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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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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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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