Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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