Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
EMILE ZOLAArt is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
EMILE ZOLAInability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
EMILE ZOLADon’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
EMILE ZOLAThey dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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 ZOLAArt for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
EMILE ZOLAIn Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLAHas science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
EMILE ZOLAI do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
EMILE ZOLAViolence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
EMILE ZOLAMy fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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 ZOLAWhy then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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 ZOLACivilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
EMILE ZOLAA ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
EMILE ZOLA