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 ZOLAI am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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