Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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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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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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