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 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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they’ve been taught is wrong!
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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It all seemed a hollow sham now – that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she’d had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Lovers are made by a kiss.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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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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