It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLADid not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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