Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLAI would rather die of passion than of boredom.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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!
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