To live is to survive; by stealing a moment’s bodily pleasure and starting another life, or by saving a life, racing to the rescue of a fellow-miner after a rock-fall or sinking new shafts through solid rock to save a comrade from drowning or starving to death hundreds of metres below the ground. Life goes on; it matters little who lives it.
 Émile Zola, Germinal (1885). copy citation

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Author Émile Zola
Source Germinal
Topic death pleasure
Date 1885
Language English
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Note Translated by Roger Pearson
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