Quotes from book
La Joie de vivre

Emile Zola Original title La Joie de vivre (French, 1884)

La joie de vivre is the twelfth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical Gil Blas in 1883 before being published in book form by Charpentier in February 1884.

Emile Zola photo

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

Emile Zola book La Joie de vivre

Source: The Joy of Life

Similar authors

Emile Zola photo
Emile Zola 54
French writer (1840-1902) 1840–1902
Stendhal photo
Stendhal 50
French writer
Alexandre Dumas photo
Alexandre Dumas 123
French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer a…
Guy De Maupassant photo
Guy De Maupassant 59
French writer
Honoré de Balzac photo
Honoré de Balzac 157
French writer
François-René de Chateaubriand photo
François-René de Chateaubriand 28
French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
Gustave Flaubert photo
Gustave Flaubert 98
French writer (1821–1880)
Anatole France photo
Anatole France 122
French writer
Alfred de Musset photo
Alfred de Musset 4
French writer
Pierre Joseph Proudhon photo
Pierre Joseph Proudhon 40
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and so…