She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
EMILE ZOLAThe only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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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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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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