Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
EMILE ZOLAWhen a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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