Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
EMILE ZOLAWhat will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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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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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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 am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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