Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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Everything is only a dream.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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