It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
EMILE ZOLAYes! 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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 vague torment of ambition.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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