When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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