“ If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Emile Zola
“ There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. Emile Zola
“ The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. Emile Zola
“ I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. Emile Zola
“ Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human. Emile Zola
“ 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.' Emile Zola
“ 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. Emile Zola
“ 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… Emile Zola
“ Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? Emile Zola
“ Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly. Emile Zola
“ He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes. Emile Zola
“ 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 himse… Emile Zola
“ She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself? Emile Zola
“ And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that e… Emile Zola
“ Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? Emile Zola
