There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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