Quotes by mile Zola, The Masterpiece

“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It's like a germ planted in the skull tha...”

“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the height...”

“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”

“Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!”

“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It's like a germ planted in the skull tha...”

“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the height...”

“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”

“Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!”