I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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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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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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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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