In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLAIt 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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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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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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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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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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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