One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLAIf you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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Over 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.
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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 day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Everything is only a dream.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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