The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
EMILE ZOLAA new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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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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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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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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