She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
EMILE ZOLAThe only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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.
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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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.
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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