Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLAIf I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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 thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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