If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
EMILE ZOLACivilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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 thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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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 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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Everything is only a dream.
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