The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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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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