These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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