I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
EMILE ZOLAI am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
EMILE ZOLAIf you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
EMILE ZOLAViolence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
EMILE ZOLAThe road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLAShe might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
EMILE ZOLAYes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
EMILE ZOLALovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLAThey talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things. They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
EMILE ZOLAI am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLAThe camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
EMILE ZOLAI do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
EMILE ZOLAMy fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
EMILE ZOLACivilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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 ZOLA