Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
EMILE ZOLARespectable people, What bastards!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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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 ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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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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