One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLAYes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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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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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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 only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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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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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