Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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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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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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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