The vague torment of ambition.
EMILE ZOLAIf 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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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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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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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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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 a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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