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Emile Zola Quotes
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A God of kindness would be charitable to all. Your God of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy (Emile Zola Quotes)
Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like (Emile Zola Quotes)
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track (Emile Zola Quotes)
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 (Emile Zola Quotes)
When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other (Emile Zola Quotes)
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground (Emile Zola Quotes)
Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless (Emile Zola Quotes)
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better (Emile Zola Quotes)
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion (Emile Zola Quotes)
Did 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 Zola Quotes)
From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there’s still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied (Emile Zola Quotes)
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it (Emile Zola Quotes)
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart (Emile Zola Quotes)
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other (Emile Zola Quotes)
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break (Emile Zola Quotes)
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master? (Emile Zola Quotes)
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down (Emile Zola Quotes)
Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense... If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you (Emile Zola Quotes)
Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out (Emile Zola Quotes)
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself (Emile Zola Quotes)
The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too (Emile Zola Quotes)
She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full - bodied blondes (Emile Zola Quotes)
He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin (Emile Zola Quotes)
As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong (Emile Zola Quotes)
She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head (Emile Zola Quotes)
Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in (Emile Zola Quotes)
She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal (Emile Zola Quotes)
The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death (Emile Zola Quotes)
Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about (Emile Zola Quotes)
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones (Emile Zola Quotes)