Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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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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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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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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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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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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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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