Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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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 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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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