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!
EMILE ZOLA
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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Everything is only a dream.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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 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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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