When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLAThe 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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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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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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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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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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