Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLAHow 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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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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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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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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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.
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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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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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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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