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.
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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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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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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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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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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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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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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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