Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
EMILE ZOLAArt is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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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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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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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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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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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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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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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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