A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
EMILE ZOLAShe might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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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!
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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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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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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