I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
EMILE ZOLA
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The vague torment of ambition.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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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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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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