Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
EMILE ZOLAThese young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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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 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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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