Quotes from zola emile ii

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

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

The sole instrument of life was heredity, which made the world; so that if one could only understand it, master it and make it do one's bidding, one could remake the world at will.

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

Lovers are made by a kiss.

Well, there's nothing hereafter. We are even madder than the fools who kill themselves for a woman. When the earth splits to pieces in space like a dry walnut, our works won't add one atom to its dust.

All that was really there was still more misery -- oh yes! as much of that as you like.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

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