"They dared not peer down into their own……" — Emile Zola
"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."
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56 Quotes by Emile Zola
Emile Zola has 56 quotes on this site.
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I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything…
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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we…
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts…
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not…
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile…
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions…
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why…
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When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some…
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More Acrid Quotes
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My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle…
— Che Guevara
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The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
— D. H. Lawrence
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Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a…
— Lee Strobel
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Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon…
— William Cowper
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One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then…
— Charles Darwin
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She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored…
— Lauren Groff
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I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini…
— Emma Forrest
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Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can…
— Robert Graves
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It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic,…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of…
— Justin Cronin
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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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My nose is still filled with the acrid stench of teen vomit. -Sue
— Glee
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