Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLAAn entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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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 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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