“The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
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 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
“I have but one passion—that of light. This I ask for in the name of humanity, which has suffered so much, and… — Émile 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
“Miserable humanity was clamouring from the depths of its abyss of suffering, and the clamour swept along, sending a shudder down every… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“The vision that had emerged from the invisible was returning to the invisible. It was no more an appearance that was fading… — Émile 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
