It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
EMILE ZOLAIn my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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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!
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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 people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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