Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
EMILE ZOLAThe only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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 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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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 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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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