If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy. — Emile Zola

She was cold by nature, self–love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. — Emile Zola

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion. — Emile Zola

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy––love which creates life? — Emile Zola

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth. — Emile Zola

Lovers are made by a kiss. — Emile Zola

I am an artist… I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

The conclusion does not belong to the artist. — 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 artist is nothing without The gift, but The gift is nothing without work. — Emile Zola

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. — Emile Zola

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth. — Emile Zola

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. — Emile Zola

In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. — Emile Zola

Paris flared––Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice. — Emile Zola

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. — Emile Zola

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it. — Emile Zola

If you ask me what i came into this world to do, i will tell you: i came to live out loud. — Emile Zola

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. — Emile Zola

Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue! — Emile Zola

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. — Emile Zola

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end. — 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

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! — Emile Zola

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

Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless. — Emile Zola

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. — Emile Zola