The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLAEvery 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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