I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLANothing develops intelligence like travel.
More Emile Zola Quotes
-
-
Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
EMILE 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 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 ZOLA -
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
EMILE 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 ZOLA -
When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
EMILE ZOLA -
If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
EMILE ZOLA -
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
EMILE ZOLA -
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
EMILE ZOLA -
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
EMILE ZOLA -
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
EMILE ZOLA -
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
EMILE ZOLA -
It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
EMILE ZOLA -
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
EMILE ZOLA -
Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
EMILE ZOLA