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.
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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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