Emile Zola Life Quotations

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

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

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.