Everything is only a dream.
EMILE ZOLAWhat 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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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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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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