Respectable people... What bastards! Auteur: Émile Zola Copy Quote More from Émile Zola “When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.” “When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for o…” “He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble …” “And, in the warm silence, in the peaceful solitude of the study, Clotilde smile…”