"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
"Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?"
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Source: Emile Zola “The Selected Works of Emile Zola”, Library of Alexandria
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