Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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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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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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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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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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