Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
EMILE ZOLAIt is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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What 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.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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