Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
EMILE ZOLAIf you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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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 under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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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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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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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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