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.
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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