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 ZOLAOver 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 ZOLAThey dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
EMILE ZOLANothing develops intelligence like travel.
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 ZOLAThe road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLAIf people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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 ZOLAThere are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
EMILE ZOLAI am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLAOne forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
EMILE ZOLAHow evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
EMILE ZOLAThe vague torment of ambition.
EMILE ZOLAEvery wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
EMILE ZOLADid not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
EMILE ZOLAArt is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
EMILE ZOLAA ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
EMILE ZOLA