If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLAIn my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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