The vague torment of ambition.
EMILE ZOLAAn entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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