I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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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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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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