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“Do you remember, brothers, that last month we went thus to dream amid the fields and draw the courage of man from the holy faith of the child?”
― Émile Zola, Claude's Confession and Other Early Novels of Émile Zola: Enriched edition. Including The Dead Woman's Wish, The Mystery of Marseille, Therese Raquin & Madeleine Ferat

“I am ignorant of the world, but I feel that Want is so cold she must freeze the hearts around her, and that, being the sister of Vice, she is timid and ashamed when she is noble.”
― Émile Zola

“No one strays farther from the goal than he who imagines that he already knows the strange realm, that he can explain its structure in few words and everywhere find the right path.”
― Novalis, The Novices of Sais

“It began to seem it had always been winter and that there was nothing else, just a vague awareness to make note of the fact. The universe was a dreary place, asleep, cold all the way to infinity, and the wind was a separate thing, not part of the winter, but a lost, unloved soul, screaming and moaning and rushing about looking for a place to rest and reckon
up its woes.”
― William Steig, Abel's Island