Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLAI am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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When 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.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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