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 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 a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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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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The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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Don’t go looking at me like that because you’ll wear your eyes out.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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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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Over 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.
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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 past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.
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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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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