Emile Zola Quotes

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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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  Inspiring, Trust, Truth

  "Dreyfus : His Life and Letters‎" edited by Pierre Dreyfus, (p. 175), 1937.

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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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  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

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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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  Atheist, Fall, Civilization

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• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.

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• The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

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  Art, Philosophy, Believe

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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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  Believe, Promise, Knows

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• Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

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  Animal, Men, Welfare

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• Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

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• If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

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  People, Littles, Start The Day

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• These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

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  Growing Up, Ideas, People

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• I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

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  Passion, Dark, Names

  "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

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• Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

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  Government, Literature, Elude

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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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  Promise, Rogues, Fool

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• Respectable people... What bastards!

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  People, Respectable

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• It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

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  Strong, Reason

  Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”

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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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  Fear, Fate, Animal

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• Everything is only a dream.

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  Dream

  Emile Zola (2016). “The Dream (Le rêve )”, p.252, 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 departing, and I love everything with more passion.

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  Death, Passion, Garden

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• If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

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  Truth, Shut Up, Grows

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• In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

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  Photography, Views, Photograph

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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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  Dream, Regret, Half

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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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  Past, Toes, Illusion

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• Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

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  Blow, Needs, Looks

  Emile Zola (1993). “Germinal”, Oxford University Press, USA

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