The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
EMILE ZOLAOne forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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