The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
EMILE ZOLAIt all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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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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