I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLAThe vague torment of ambition.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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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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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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