I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
EMILE ZOLAThe 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.
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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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 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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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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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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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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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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