Emile Zola Quotes - Page 3

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• Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

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  Art, Inability, Boundaries

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• It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

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  Humble, Suffering, Should

  Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”

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• The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

  Emile Zola

  World, Deeds

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• If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

  Emile Zola

  Ifs, Hacked, Bits

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• Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

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  Boys, Sin, Dear

  Emile Zola (2007). “The Kill”, p.141, Modern Library

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• 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.

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  Mean, Reality, Giving

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• 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.

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  Heart, Loving Life, People

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• She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

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  Passion, Self, Cold

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• The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

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  Ordinary, May, Revolution

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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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  Fire, Lakes, Snakes

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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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  Beauty, Struggle, Perfection

  My Hates (1866)

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

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  Kissing, Feelings, Lips

  Emile Zola (2016). “The Fortune Of The Rougons”, p.194, Emile Zola

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• Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

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  Art, Creation, Temperament

  My Hates (1866)

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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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  Soul, Sacred, Drink

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• Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

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  Littles, Fool, Taught

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• 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.

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  Tyrants, Profound, Sometimes

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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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  People, Atmosphere, Gathering

  Emile Zola (1984). “The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

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  Despair, Triumph, Intense

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• A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

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  Lying, Men, Hands

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• 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!

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  Evil, Heaven, Moral

  Emile Zola (2015). “The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Works Of Zola”, p.332, 谷月社

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Trying, Might

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• From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

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  Feelings, Firsts, May

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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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  Dirt, Causes, Crime

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• 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.

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  Relationship, Heart, Talking

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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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  Rubbish, Shellfish, Exquisite

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