A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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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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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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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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