If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLAEverything is only a dream.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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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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