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.
EMILE ZOLADid not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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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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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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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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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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