One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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Over 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.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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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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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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