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.
EMILE ZOLANothing develops intelligence like travel.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for 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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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