One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLALet us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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 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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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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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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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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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