Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
EMILE ZOLAThe road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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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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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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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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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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