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Emile Zola (Writer)

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
— Emile Zola will
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
— Emile Zola you
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
— Emile Zola truth
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
— Emile Zola life
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
— Emile Zola truth
One forges ones style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
— Emile Zola dead
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
— Emile Zola art
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
— Emile Zola art
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
— Emile Zola self
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.
— Emile Zola fear
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I dont care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
— Emile Zola life
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
— Emile Zola world
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
— Emile Zola art
Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety
— Emile Zola unity
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud
— Emile Zola art
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.
— Emile Zola truth
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
— Emile Zola god
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
— Emile Zola passion
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
— Emile Zola intelligence
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.
— Emile Zola love
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
— Emile Zola sin
Mans highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
— Emile Zola man
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
— Emile Zola church
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
— Emile Zola wit
Oh, thats typical of you modern young men; youve nibbled at science and its made you ill, because youve not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. Youd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas were only just beginning to understand it, and itll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion wont have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, its the disease of our age, of the end of the century: youre all inverted Werthers.
— Emile Zola religion
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.
— Emile Zola people
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
— Emile Zola education
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
— Emile Zola art
Blow the candle out, I dont need to see what my thoughts look like.
— Emile Zola thoughts
An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
— Emile Zola life
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of ones intellect to know it better.
— Emile Zola life
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.
— Emile Zola truth
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.
— Emile Zola truth
From the moment I start a new novel, lifes just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel theres still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
— Emile Zola life
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
— Emile Zola man
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
— Emile Zola love
It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
— Emile Zola self
Everything is only a dream.
— Emile Zola dream
The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
— Emile Zola evolution
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
— Emile Zola history
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
— Emile Zola art
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.
— Emile Zola love
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.
— Emile Zola time
The vague torment of ... ambition.
— Emile Zola men
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
— Emile Zola man
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
— Emile Zola living
In Paris, everythings for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
— Emile Zola truth
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, shed had enough of that; she wanted to live!
— Emile Zola women
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.
— Emile Zola love
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
— Emile Zola time
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
— Emile Zola life
And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself! - Joy of Life
— Emile Zola life
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.
— Emile Zola happiness
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
— Emile Zola art
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed ones toes on the gravestones.
— Emile Zola past
Dont go looking at me like that because youll wear your eyes out.
— Emile Zola you
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
— Emile Zola art
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
— Emile Zola love
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
— Emile Zola art
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
— Emile Zola art
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
— Emile Zola literature
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
— Emile Zola despair
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
— Emile Zola need
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
— Emile Zola art
The 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.
— Emile Zola sin
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.
— Emile Zola war
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.
— Emile Zola death
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.
— Emile Zola reality
Did not one spend the first half of ones days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
— Emile Zola happiness
Violence has never prospered, you cant remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
— Emile Zola change
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
— Emile Zola joy
When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one anothers lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
— Emile Zola love
Respectable people... What bastards!
— Emile Zola people
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.
— Emile Zola nature
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything theyve been taught is wrong!
— Emile Zola death
When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
— Emile Zola sorrow
If somethings just, Ill let myself be hacked to bits for it.
— Emile Zola self
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
— Emile Zola truth
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
— Emile Zola science
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.
— Emile Zola truth
My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
— Emile Zola soul
Lovers are made by a kiss.
— Emile Zola love
Yes! live life with every fibre of ones being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
— Emile Zola life
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
— Emile Zola love

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