A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
EMILE ZOLAIt is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life?
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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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.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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