It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLAThe artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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 new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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 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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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