Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLAEverything is only a dream.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The vague torment of ambition.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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