An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
EMILE ZOLAIf you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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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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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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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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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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