Émile Zola: Respectable people... What bastards!

Respectable people... What bastards! — Émile Zola

Respectable people... What bastards!

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Everything is only a dream. — Émile Zola
Oh, those bourgeois scum! One day they’d stuff 'em with champagne and truffles t — Émile Zola
Etre pauvre à Paris, c'est être pauvre deux fois. — Émile Zola
From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. — Émile Zola
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any. — Mark Twain
Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro — Fernando Pessoa
On ne loue d'ordinaire que pour être loué. — François de La Rochefoucauld
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nat — Bernard Shaw
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. — Meister Eckhart
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Only the shallow know themselves. — Oscar Wilde