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.
EMILE ZOLAThe artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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