She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
EMILE ZOLAShe might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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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.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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