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.
EMILE ZOLALet us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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