The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
EMILE ZOLAMy fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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