They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
EMILE ZOLAShe might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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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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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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