When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLAMy fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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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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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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