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.
EMILE ZOLAHow 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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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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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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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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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