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.
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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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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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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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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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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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The vague torment of ambition.
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