"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often……" — Emile Zola
"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
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56 Quotes by Emile Zola
Emile Zola has 56 quotes on this site.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything…
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we…
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts…
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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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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not…
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile…
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions…
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why…
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some…
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
— Isaiah Berlin
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to…
— Emily Bronte
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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.
— Tony Campolo
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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
— Anton Chekhov
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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
— Emile M. Cioran
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
— William J. Clinton
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is…
— William J. Clinton
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or…
— Adam Ant
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The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character…
— Oswald Chambers
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sudden love is latest cured.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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