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Emile Zola Quotes

French - Novelist | April 2, 1840 - September 29, 1902

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

Truth Wise Tears Paris Smiles Lies

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

Life World You Find Will Outside

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.

Life Love Growth Spring People Fall

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

Truth Grow You Will Shut Up Up

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

Myself Perfection Regret Tobacco

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.

Fear Men Me Fate Ridiculous Animals

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.

Beauty Progress I Can Understand

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

Money Yourself People Me Anxiety

When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.

People Ideas Better Talk Same About

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Day Intelligence Human Existence Up

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

Future Truth Science Progress Man

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

Happiness Wisdom Half Keep Well

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