If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
EMILE ZOLAThere are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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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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