A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy...It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
Émile ZolaWhen you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
Émile ZolaThe fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
Émile ZolaTags: right reactionary hidebound
Crever pour crever, je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui !
Émile ZolaThey dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
Émile ZolaTags: human-nature
Respectable people... What bastards!
Émile ZolaTags: respectability
A silence fell at the mention of Gavard. They all looked at each other cautiously. As they were all rather short of breath by this time, it was the camembert they could smell. This cheese, with its gamy odour, had overpowered the milder smells of the marolles and the limbourg; its power was remarkable. Every now and then, however, a slight whiff, a flute-like note, came from the parmesan, while the bries came into play with their soft, musty smell, the gentle sound, so to speak, of a damp tambourine. The livarot launched into an overwhelming reprise, and the géromé kept up the symphony with a sustained high note.
Émile ZolaTags: cheese cheese-symphony
Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly.
Émile ZolaTags: country countryside sickly terre
The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman.
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