Lovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLAThe road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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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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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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