If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
EMILE ZOLADon’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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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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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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