They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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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.
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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 ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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