Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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 ZOLAIn Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLAWhen truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
EMILE ZOLAThe only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
EMILE ZOLAGovernments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
EMILE ZOLAI am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
EMILE ZOLAI would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLAThe vague torment of ambition.
EMILE ZOLAIt is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
EMILE ZOLAOh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLAI have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
EMILE ZOLAThe road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLAIf you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLAClassical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
EMILE ZOLA