Emile Zola Quotes
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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The vague torment of ... ambition.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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.
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Did 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.
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When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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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!