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.
EMILE ZOLAHow 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!
More Emile Zola Quotes
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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 road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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 truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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She 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.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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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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