Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLAWhy then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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 people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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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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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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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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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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