Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
Emile ZolaArt for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
Emile ZolaDid science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
Emile ZolaAnd that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
Emile Zola