Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
EMILE ZOLAI 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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