If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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