An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
EMILE ZOLAIf you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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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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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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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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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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