Source: The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Works Of Zola
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Famous Emile Zola Quotes
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”
“If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.”
“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”
Source: Truth
“When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.”
Source: The Fortune Of The Rougons
“A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.”
“One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.”
“Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.”
“Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.”
“The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.”