"How evil life must be if it were……" — Emile Zola
"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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56 Quotes by Emile Zola
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything…
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we…
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts…
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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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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not…
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile…
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions…
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why…
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some…
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