Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
EMILE ZOLAInability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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