If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. Emile Zola More Quotes by Emile Zola More Quotes From Emile Zola 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 affirmation demand art The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg. Emile Zola lourdes legs crutches 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 giving mean reality 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. Emile Zola rebellion surrender life It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer. Emile Zola should suffering humble 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 fool rogues promise If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. Emile Zola quantity quality-not-quantity quality If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy. Emile Zola start-the-day littles people The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. Emile Zola illusion toes past 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 loving-life heart people 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 growing-up people ideas 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 pity dog heart 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 people thinking I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola loud artist art When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other. Emile Zola sorrow rooms 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 regret half dream In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. Emile Zola photograph photography views Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy. Emile Zola dear sin boys An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl. Emile Zola girl lifetime long Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. Emile Zola track education men