Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
Émile ZolaTag: science pessimism religion
How the thought of meeting lost loved ones would sweeten one's last moments, how eagerly would one embrace them, and what bliss to live together once more in immortality! He suffered agonies when he considered religion's charitable lie, which compassionately conceals the terrible truth from feeble creatures. No, everything finished at death, nothing that we had loved was ever reborn, our farewells were for ever. For ever! For ever! That was the dreadful thought that carried his mind hurtling down abysses of emptiness.
Émile ZolaBoredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.
Émile ZolaShe wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?
Émile ZolaTag: zola living-life joie-de-vivre
İlle de bir sınıfın öbürünü yenmesi gerekiyorsa, çok daha yeni ve canlı bir sınıf olan emekçi halkın zevke eğlenceye dalıp çürümüş olan kentsoylu sınıfı yenmesi daha akla yatkın değil miydi? Belki kan dökülecek, ama sonunda yepyeni bir toplum ortaya çıkacaktı. Yaşlanmış ulusları canlandıracak bu barbarca saldırıyı işteyişte aslında pek yakında patlak verecek gerçek devrime, emekçi halkın devrimine duyulan şaşmaz inanç gizliydi; bu devrim şu anda gökyüzünü kana boyayan güneş gibi yüzyılın son günlerinde bütün dünyayı tutuşturacaktı.
Émile ZolaIn the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them.
Émile ZolaTag: gender-roles contempt
They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape of a terrified eye, that stared wildly and fixedly upon the pale, slumbering couple who reeked with crime beneath their very sheets, and dreamt they could see a rain of blood falling in big drops, which turned into golden coins as they plashed upon the floor.
Émile ZolaShe [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.
Émile ZolaTag: laughter flirting blondes
He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.
Émile ZolaThe air there was heavy with the somnolence of a party prolonged into the early hours; and a dull light came from the lamps, whose charred wicks glowed red inside their globes. The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other the story of their lives.
Émile ZolaTag: party-fatigue
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