If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out,… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost.… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth,… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep… — Émile Zola Copy Share
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and… — Emile Zola Copy Share
“he was carried aloft, for the moment, on one of those great waves of hope from which he was usually plunged deep into the… — Émile Zola Copy Share
“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made… — Émile Zola Copy Share
“Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and I accuse… — Émile Zola Copy Share
“vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)” — Émile Zola Copy Share
“Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins, the choir-boys… — Émile Zola Copy Share
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better. — Emile Zola Copy Share
“A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to… — Émile Zola Copy Share
I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe… — Emile Zola Copy Share
“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… — Émile Zola Copy Share
The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through… — Emile Zola Copy Share
