Émile Zola

“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.”

“When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.”

“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 for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spo...”

“But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die? 'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.”

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”

“Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.”