Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
EMILE ZOLAWhen lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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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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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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