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 ZOLAI 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.
More Emile Zola Quotes
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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Respectable people, What bastards!
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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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