In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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 artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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 do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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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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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 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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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 past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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