One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLANothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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