I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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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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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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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop 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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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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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 conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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