Dig a grave for those whom you have removed from your life. They no longer exist to you.

They got to live before they can afford to die.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: "If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

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.

Ce fut un naïf, un naïf sublime, resté sur le seuil du temple, à genoux devant des cierges qu’il prenait de loin pour des étoiles.

She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head.

It was at times like this that one of those waves of bestiality ran through the mine, the sudden lust of the male that came over a miner when he met one of these girls on all fours, with her rear in the air and her buttocks busting out of her breeches.

Émile Zola

Quotes by Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

Written By Émile Zola

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