Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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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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Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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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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Yes! 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.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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