If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
EMILE ZOLAThe vague torment of ambition.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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