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The vague torment of ambition.

Emile Zola

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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Fibre Improvement Life Pain Rebel Surrender
Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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Divine Future Greatness Justice Light Sun Truth
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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Class Correct Education Genius Talent Track
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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History Lesson People Time Tolerance
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Charitable God Kindness Monster Punishment Yourself
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Boy Exquisite Myself Sin
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Impress Myself Quality Quantity
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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Change Fools Promise Violence World
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Stop Truth Way
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Fools Lying Sale Tears Virgin
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Allow Hack Myself Part Willing
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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Existence Life Live Myself Purpose
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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Animal Appearance Connection Fate Fear Greatness Important Man
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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Dreams Fear Happiness Oneself Regret
The vague torment of ambition.
EMILE ZOLA

Ambition One Liner
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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Blow Choke Force Truth
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Dead Fake Forge Line Style
Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Blow Myself Need See Thinking
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Force Government Literature
Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Eyes Myself Sight Stare Yourself
My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Cry Fire Myself Protest Soul
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Growth Shut Truth Yourself
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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Beneath Civilization Human Live Smell
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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Myself Praise Reality Temperature True Word
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Affirmation Art Demand Negotiation Rule Society

The vague torment of ambition.

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