"The past was but the cemetery of our……" — Emile Zola
"The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones."
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56 Quotes by Emile Zola
Emile Zola has 56 quotes on this site.
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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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More Cemetery Quotes
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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about…
— Red Adair
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
— William J. Clinton
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I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We…
— Eva Gabor
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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
— Ed Furgol
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He…
— Harry S. Truman
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty…
— George W. Bush
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
— Adolph Rupp
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