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Truth will burst through

4 April 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Emile Zola

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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.

— Emile Zola, /Dreyfus : His Life and Letters/‎ (1937) edited by Pierre Dreyfus, p. 175

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