Quote of Émile Zola - I have only one passion, that...

Biography - Émile Zola:

French novelist, playwright and journalist.
Born: 1840 - Died: 1902
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.

Émile Zola - J'accuse… !

Note

Other version: "I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness."

Quote source: J'accuse… !

Wikisource - J’accuse…!, paru dans L’Aurore, 13 janvier 1898 (fr)

Translation

(French, German)

Je n’ai qu’une passion, celle de la lumière, au nom de l’humanité qui a tant souffert et qui a droit au bonheur.

Émile Zola - J'accuse… !

Ich habe nur eine Leidenschaft, nämlich Aufklärung im Namen der Menschheit, die so viel gelitten und ein Recht auf Glück hat.

Émile Zola - J'accuse… !

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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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Victor Hugo - Les Misérables /

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Götz von Berlichingen /

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Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation /

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Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos /

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Bertrand Russell /

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

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Quotes about passion:

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

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All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

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Marcel Proust /

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Denis Diderot /

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

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Quotes for: pain

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.

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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

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Knowing where you want to go is a good start; but you have to show you are on your way.

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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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