Quotes from La Bête humaine — Émile Zola
1840–1902 France
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Could he love this one, without killing her?
La Bête humaine (1890)
Don't keep looking at me like that, you’ll wear your eyes out.
La Bête humaine (1890)
Does anyone kill as the result of reasoning? People only kill by an impulse of blood and nerves—the necessity to live, the joy of being strong.
La Bête humaine (1890)
She was a combative virgin, was Flora, scornful of the male sex, all of which in the end had led folk to conclude that she could not be quite all there.
La Bête humaine (1890)
... la machine ronflait, crachait, comme une bête qu’on surmène, avec des sursauts, des coups de reins, où l’on aurait cru entendre craquer ses membres.
La Bête humaine (1890)
He had devoured her, the strapping creature, tall and handsome, that she once had been, eating into her much as an insect eats into an oak, till here she was for ever on her back, reduced to nothingness, whereas he was still going.
La Bête humaine (1890)