The vague torment of ambition.
EMILE ZOLADon’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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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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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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