Quotes by : Émile Zola

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred....

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away....

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went....

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers....

With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour....

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught....

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for....

There Albine lay, panting, exhausted by love, her hands clutched closer and closer to her heart, breathing....

Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and....