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Emile Zola Quotes: How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
         

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!


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



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



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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.



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.

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.



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

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



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



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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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It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.



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I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.




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This page presents the quote "How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!". Author of this quote is Emile Zola. This quote is about life, evil, moral, heaven, wretchedness,.