Emile Zola Quotes
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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!
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.
If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'