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.
EMILE ZOLAViolence 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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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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 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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Everything is only a dream.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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