Quotes from La Curée — Émile Zola
1840–1902 France
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To be poor in Paris, is to be doubly poor.
La Curée (1872)
Those harlot eyes were never lowered; they courted pleasure, a pleasure without fatigue which one summons and receives.
La Curée (1872)
Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.
La Curée (1872)
She never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself.
La Curée (1872)
At that hour she desired sin, the sin which no one commits, the sin which would fill her empty life, and finally set her in that hell of which she was still afraid, just as she had been when she was a little girl.
La Curée (1872)
Vice, coming from above, flowed along the gutters, spread itself out in the sheets of ornamental water, re-ascended in the fountains of the public gardens to fall again on to the roofs in a fine penetrating rain.
La Curée (1872)
He was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.
La Curée (1872)
The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.
La Curée (1872)