Everything is only a dream.
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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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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