246 Quotes by Émile Zola

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

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.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

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.