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 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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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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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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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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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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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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