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!
EMILE ZOLAWhen lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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