If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLAOver 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The vague torment of ambition.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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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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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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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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