Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLAThe 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.
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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An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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Everything is only a dream.
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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The vague torment of ambition.
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