Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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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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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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