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Émile Zola Quotes: "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.



Émile Zola Quotes: "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.




Émile 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?"

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



Émile Zola Quotes: "The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones."

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.




Émile Zola Quotes: "Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.



Émile Zola Quotes: "In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it."

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.



Émile 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."

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




Émile Zola Quotes: "In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles."

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.



Émile Zola Quotes: "Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament."

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.



Émile Zola Quotes: "Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!"

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



Émile Zola Quotes: "The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most."

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



Émile 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."

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.




Émile Zola Quotes: "As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong."

As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong.



Émile 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."

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.



Émile Zola Quotes: "But you said so yourself, the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life."

But you said so yourself, the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.



Émile Zola Quotes: "He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes."

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



Émile Zola Quotes: "She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?"

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?



Émile Zola Quotes: "Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?"

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?



Émile Zola Quotes: "The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too."

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.



Émile Zola Quotes: "She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes."

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.



Émile 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?"

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



Émile Zola Quotes: "The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous."

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.



Émile Zola Quotes: "Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder."

Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.



Émile Zola Quotes: "Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights."

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



Émile Zola Quotes: "When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium."

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.



Émile Zola Quotes: "He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin."

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.



Émile Zola Quotes: "The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time."

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.



Émile Zola Quotes: "Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow."

Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.



Émile Zola Quotes: "Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in."

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.



Émile Zola Quotes: "The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death."

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.