Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLAIf you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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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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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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