More from Emile Zola
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Emile ZolaEmile Zola I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola 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 ZolaEmile Zola Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Emile ZolaEmile 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 ZolaEmile Zola A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Emile ZolaEmile Zola
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on reason
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
Napoleon HillNapoleon Hill There’s a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
Carl JungCarl Jung Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George WashingtonGeorge Washington The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.