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.
EMILE ZOLAArt for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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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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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 shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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 you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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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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