Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLAThere are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything is only a dream.
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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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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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