The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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