Quotes from Une page d'amour — Émile Zola
1840–1902 France
← All quotes by Émile Zola
4 quotes
When Hélène came back, ... she said to herself that they had never loved one another less than that day.
Une page d'amour (1878)
How she had cheated herself with her integrity and nice honor, which had girt her round with the empty joys of piety! No, no; she had had enough of it; she wished to live!
Une page d'amour (1878)
Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life.
Une page d'amour (1878)
With eyes again dreamily gazing upward, Hélène remained plunged in reverie. She was the Lady Rowena; she loved with the serenity and intensity of a noble mind. That spring morning, that great, gentle city, those early wall-flowers shedding their perfume on her lap, had little by little filled her heart with tenderness.
Une page d'amour (1878)