Truth
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Source: Germinal
“The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.”
Source: The Dream (Le rêve )
Source: His Masterpiece: Works Of Zola
“A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.”
Source: Truth
“In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.”
Source: The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories
Source: The Fortune Of The Rougons
Source: The Selected Works of Emile Zola
Source: The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories
Source: Truth
“When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.”
Source: The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Works Of Zola
“I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.”
“Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.”
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.”
“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”
“Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.”
“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
“The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.”
“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
Source: The Kill
“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
Source: Germinal
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Source: The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)