Emile Zola Quotes - Page 4

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• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  Emile Zola

  Pain, Children, Men

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• Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

  Emile Zola

  Atheism, Retreat, Positive Atheism

  Emile Zola (2015). “The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Works Of Zola”, p.960, 谷月社

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• When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

  Emile Zola

  Needs, Instruction, Peasants

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• They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

  Emile Zola

  Confusion, Mind, Peers

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• Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

  Emile Zola

  Light, Paris, Justice

  Emile Zola “The Selected Works of Emile Zola”, Library of Alexandria

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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!

  Emile Zola

  Joy, Had Enough, Virtue

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• The 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.

  Emile Zola

  Food, Smell, Cooking

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