These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
EMILE ZOLAThese young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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 ZOLAPerfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLADon’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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 ZOLALovers are made by a kiss.
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 ZOLAClassical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
EMILE ZOLABlow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
EMILE ZOLAGovernments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
EMILE ZOLAHas science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
EMILE ZOLAWhen a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLADid science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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 ZOLAParis flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
EMILE ZOLAMan’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
EMILE ZOLA