When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
EMILE ZOLAThe past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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