If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLAShe was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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It 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!
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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