Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
EMILE ZOLAWhy then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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