Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
-
-
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
EMILE ZOLA -
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
EMILE ZOLA -
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLA -
When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLA -
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
EMILE ZOLA -
Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLA -
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
EMILE ZOLA -
I 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 ZOLA -
When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
EMILE ZOLA -
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
EMILE ZOLA -
Lovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLA -
The 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 ZOLA -
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLA -
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA -
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
EMILE ZOLA