Quotes from Émile Zola

Like certain devotees, who fancy they will deceive the Almighty, and secure pardon by praying with their lips, and assuming the humble attitude of penitence, Thérèse displayed humility, striking her chest, finding words of repentance, without having anything at the bottom of her heart save fear and cowardice.

a world where the same fatigue and the same fever played over every face.

Fransa'n?n en büyük romanc?lar?ndan birinin kopard??? Üstelik bu insanlar uyuyabiliyorlar, eÅŸleri ve çocuklar? var, onlar? seviyorlar! ç??l???n? her okuyuÅŸlar?nda yürekleri s?zlayacak, kendi kendilerinden, kendi türlerinden utanacak, gerçek adalet özlemini bir kez daha duyacaklar.

Zola'n?n italyan kökeni bile bir aÅŸa??lama nedeni olur. Bir gazeteci Yar?-Ä°talyan, çeyrek Yunan, çeyrek Frans?z, üç-dört kez k?rma, hiç de güzel bir insanl?k örneÄŸi deÄŸil! diye yazar.

The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, And cabbages and kings." the walrus and the carpenter The Proem: by the Carpenter [taken from "Money Maze," Ainslee's, May 1901] They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast

Alors, Nana, tout de suite, entama La Faloise. Il postulait depuis longtemps l'honneur d'être ruiné par elle, afin d'être parfaitement chic.

If the world is to die in misery, let it at least go out with a song on its lips, and pity for itself.

Elle était là, patiente, seule, redoutable dans sa douceur. There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.

She was listening to his proposals and continually refusing them with shakes of the head and that temptress's laughter which is peculiar to a voluptuous blonde.

Todo se acaba y nada vuelve a empezar en la vida

What is art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? Didn't it all boil down to sticking a female in front of you and painting her as you feel she is? - page35

And, then, if only there were some truth in what the priests say, if only the poor of this world were rich in the next! These words were greeted with a burst of laughter, and even the children shrugged their shoulders, for the hard wind blowing from the outer world had taken away all their belief. They harbored a secret fear of ghosts down in the mine, but scoffed at the empty heavens.

Oh, Justice, what frightful despair oppresses our hearts!

Justice!…The time has come! Justice!

The preconceived opinion which they brought to the Bench was evidently this: "Dreyfus has been condemned for the crime of treason by a Court-Martial; he is therefore guilty, and we, the Court-Martial, cannot declare him innocent; for we know that to proclaim the guilt of Esterhazy would be to proclaim the innocence of Dreyfus.

Both women, looking different ways, kept shrugging their shoulders and asking themselves how the deuce the other could tell such whoppers!

Cet audacieux dont on s'est moqué, a des procédés fort sages, et si ses oeuvres ont un aspect particulier, elles ne le doivent qu'à la façon toute personnelle dont il aperçoit et traduit les objets.

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.

A French tribunal, after having allowed the reporter publicly to accuse a witness of every kind of error, decided to hear the case with closed doors when this witness was introduced to defend himself. I declare that this is one crime the more, and that this crime will rouse the universal conscience. Decidedly military tribunals have a peculiar idea of justice.

Quand Hélène revint […] elle pensait que jamais ils ne s'étaient moins aimés que ce jour-là.

On the summit of a desolate rock on Devil's Island, far from the few palm trees on the shore, a small hut of four cubic yards was built for Dreyfus; night and day an inspector stood guard at the door, with strict orders not to address a word to him. In the daytime the prisoner was permitted to exercise until sunset in a small rectangular space of about two hundred yards, near his hut.

L'hérédité a ses lois, comme la pesanteur.

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