Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
EMILE ZOLAA god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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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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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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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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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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 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 new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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