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Emile Zola Quotes

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light Picture Quote #1

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy love which creates life? Picture Quote #1

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He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes Picture Quote #1

She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself Picture Quote #1

She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal Picture Quote #1

Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights Picture Quote #1

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss Picture Quote #1

The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins Picture Quote #1

And, in the warm silence, in the peaceful solitude of the study, Clotilde smiled down at the baby who was still sucking - his little arm in the air, pointing upwards, a symbol of hope and life Picture Quote #1

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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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 (Emile Zola Quotes) 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! (Emile Zola Quotes) While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light (Emile Zola Quotes) Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? (Emile Zola Quotes) 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! (Emile Zola Quotes) 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 Quotes) He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes (Emile Zola Quotes) She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself (Emile Zola Quotes) She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal (Emile Zola Quotes) Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights (Emile Zola Quotes) When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss (Emile Zola Quotes) The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman (Emile Zola Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins (Emile Zola Quotes) And, in the warm silence, in the peaceful solitude of the study, Clotilde smiled down at the baby who was still sucking - his little arm in the air, pointing upwards, a symbol of hope and life (Emile Zola Quotes) If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud (Emile Zola Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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