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Emile Zola Inspirational Quotes (54)

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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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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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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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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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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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