It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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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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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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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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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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