Everything is only a dream.
EMILE ZOLAEverything is only a dream.
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 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 ZOLAIf I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLAThe conclusion does not belong to the artist.
EMILE ZOLATruth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
EMILE ZOLAPerfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLAWhat 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 ZOLAShe was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
EMILE ZOLACivilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
EMILE ZOLAWhen you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
EMILE ZOLAThrough the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
EMILE ZOLAWhen lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
EMILE ZOLAI would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLAClassical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
EMILE ZOLAThe day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
EMILE ZOLA