If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
EMILE ZOLAIf I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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 road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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