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.
EMILE ZOLAThese young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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