She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
EMILE ZOLAWhen 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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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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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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