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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola 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.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola 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.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
Emile ZolaEmile Zola 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.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Respectable people, What bastards!
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Everything is only a dream.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola
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