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!
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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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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