I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLAIf people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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She 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.
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