Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
EMILE ZOLALovers are made by a kiss.
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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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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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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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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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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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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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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