A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
EMILE ZOLAA ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLACivilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
EMILE ZOLAWhen lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLAWhen a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLAPerfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLASince the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
EMILE ZOLAIf you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
EMILE ZOLAWhy then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
EMILE ZOLAClassical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
EMILE ZOLAArt for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
EMILE ZOLAA new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
EMILE ZOLAThe conclusion does not belong to the artist.
EMILE ZOLAEverything is only a dream.
EMILE ZOLAI would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLA