Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLAI 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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