It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLAIf I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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