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!
EMILE ZOLA
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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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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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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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