Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
EMILE ZOLAIf something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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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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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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