Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
EMILE ZOLAMy fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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