The vague torment of ambition.
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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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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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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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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