The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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