Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
EMILE ZOLASin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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