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The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous. — Emile Zola

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. — Emile Zola

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. — Emile Zola

Lovers are made by a kiss. — Emile Zola

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it. — Emile Zola

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution. — Emile Zola

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy. — Emile Zola

The vague torment of ... ambition. — Emile Zola

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. — Emile Zola

When they got back into the carriage they felt greater strangers than before. — Emile Zola

I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. — Emile Zola

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time. — Emile Zola

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? — Emile Zola

Nothing develops intelligence like travel. — Emile Zola

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium. — Emile Zola

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. — Emile Zola

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg. — Emile Zola

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

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl. — Emile Zola

Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow. — Emile Zola

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy
love which creates life? — Emile Zola

they seemed to be greater strangers than before — Emile Zola

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. — Emile Zola

The obligation of a writer is to live out loud. — Emile Zola

It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside. — Emile Zola

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. — Emile Zola

Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights. — Emile Zola

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? — Emile Zola

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. — Emile Zola

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. — Emile Zola

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. — Emile Zola

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?
'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life. — Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. — Emile Zola

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss. — Emile Zola

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. — Emile Zola

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. — Emile Zola

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

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong! — Emile Zola

In the sudden change that had come over her heart she no longer recognized herself — Emile Zola

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

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. — Emile Zola

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola

When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter. — Emile Zola

Art for me ... is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society. — Emile Zola

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

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes. — Emile Zola

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death. — Emile Zola

The conclusion does not belong to the artist. — Emile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. — Emile Zola

The couple fell one atop of the other, struck down, finding consolation, at last, in death. — Emile Zola

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other. — Emile Zola

She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head. — Emile Zola

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty. — Emile Zola

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction. — Emile Zola

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. — Emile Zola

Everything is only a dream. — Emile Zola

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer. — Emile Zola

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart. — Emile Zola

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. — Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out. — Emile Zola

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. — Emile Zola

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. — Emile Zola

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. — Emile Zola

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too. — Emile Zola

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. — Emile Zola

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself? — Emile Zola

With his mouth open, he gave off that alcoholic smell that you get from an old brandy cask when you take out the bung. — Emile Zola

After a time, she believed in the reality of this comedy — Emile Zola

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth. — Emile Zola

O Almighty God, O Divinity, Helpful Power, whoever, whatever Thou mayst be, take pity upon poor mankind and make human suffering cease! All — Emile Zola

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. — Emile Zola

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy. — Emile Zola

There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois. — Emile Zola

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. — Emile Zola

Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair — Emile Zola

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. — Emile Zola

...it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing... — Emile Zola

I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals. — Emile Zola

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. — Emile Zola

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. — Emile Zola

such a strange look of repugnance and horror — Emile Zola

Respectable people... What bastards! — Emile Zola

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. — Emile Zola

I am an artist ... I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in. — Emile Zola