Everything is only a dream.
EMILE ZOLAOver 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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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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