Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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