The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
EMILE ZOLAThe day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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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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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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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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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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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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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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