Émile Zola: Does anyone kill as the result of reasoning? People only kill by an impulse of blood and nerves—the necessity to live, t

Does anyone kill as the result of reasoning? People only kill by an impulse of b — Émile Zola

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.

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Il a besoin de cette femme pour vivre comme on a besoin de boire et de manger. — Émile Zola
Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow. — Émile Zola
Parfois, ils se forçaient à l’espérance, ils cherchaient à reprendre les rêves b — Émile Zola
Ce fut une jouissance mêlée de remords, une de ces jouissances de catholique que — Émile Zola
Cremation is preferable to burial as a way of disposing of corpses. — Annie Besant
A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; W — Emily Dickinson
If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own su — Samuel Butler
Je suis un cimetière abhorré de la lune. — Charles Baudelaire
You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere. — Seneca
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people. — Napoleon
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. — George Bancroft