The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
EMILE ZOLAClassical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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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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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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