Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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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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Everything is only a dream.
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