Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
EMILE ZOLASin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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 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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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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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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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