There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
EMILE ZOLAIn Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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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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