The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
EMILE ZOLAGovernments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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