The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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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. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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