It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
EMILE ZOLAA new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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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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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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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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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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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 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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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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