Quotes by : Émile Zola

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the....

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

Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was....

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable....

The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers....

Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of the....

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and....

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?'Yes, I'd rather....