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.
EMILE ZOLAThe vague torment of ambition.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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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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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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