Emile Zola Quotes
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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Everything is only a dream.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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