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 ZOLAHas science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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.
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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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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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