Émile Zola: Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the se — Émile Zola

Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything — Émile Zola
« Du pain! est-ce que ça suffit, imbéciles ? » — Émile Zola
Ne me regardez plus comme ça, parce que vous allez vous user les yeux. — Émile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. — Émile Zola
Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will — Anton Chekhov
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselv — Michel de Montaigne
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners : only the unhappy are chur — Christopher Morley
O mother, mother, what is bliss? O mother, what is bale? Without my William what — Walter Scott
Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell. — William Shakespeare
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? — William Shakespeare
"They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for — Fyodor Dostoevsky