Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLAGovernments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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