The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLAThe thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
EMILE ZOLAI am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
EMILE ZOLAWhen a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLAI would rather die of passion than of boredom.
EMILE ZOLASince the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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 ZOLASin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
EMILE ZOLACivilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
EMILE ZOLAInability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
EMILE ZOLAThe road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
EMILE ZOLADon’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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 something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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 ZOLAIn love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
EMILE ZOLAMy fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
EMILE ZOLA