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.
EMILE ZOLAIn my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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