The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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 day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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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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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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.
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