When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLAThe conclusion does not belong to the artist.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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