Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
EMILE ZOLAThere are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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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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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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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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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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