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L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18) QUOTES

L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18) QUOTES

1 " Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life? "

― Émile Zola , L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18)

2 " At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a gaol. And here, indeed, lived La Méchain, like a vigilant proprietess, ever on the watch, exploiting in person her little population of starving tenants. "

― Émile Zola , L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18)

3 " Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well? "

― Émile Zola , L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18)

4 " Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish. "

― Émile Zola , L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18)

5 " In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end. "

― Émile Zola , L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18)