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 would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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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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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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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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