Quotes by : Émile Zola

It was at times like this that one of those waves of bestiality ran through the mine, the sudden lust....

... Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream....

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.....

Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was....

She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing,....

The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers....

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward....

The whole of Paris was lit up. The tiny dancing flames had bespangled the sea of darkness from end to....

He knew that, from now on, every day would be alike, that they would all bring the same sufferings. And....