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.
EMILE ZOLAOver all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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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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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 I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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