It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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.
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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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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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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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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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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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