“ No, one may love people, but they are too great a weight when they are dead; and the more one has loved them, the sooner one would like to be rid of their bodies. ”
Émile Zola, L'Assommoir (1877). copy citation
| Author | Émile Zola |
|---|---|
| Source | L'Assommoir |
| Topic | love body |
| Date | 1877 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8600/8600-h/8600-h.htm |
Context
“A nice morning to add to the night and the day before! Gervaise, though without a sou, said she would have given a hundred francs to anybody who would have come and taken mother Coupeau away three hours sooner. No, one may love people, but they are too great a weight when they are dead; and the more one has loved them, the sooner one would like to be rid of their bodies.
The morning of a funeral is, fortunately, full of diversions. One has all sorts of preparations to make. To begin with, they lunched. Then it happened to be old Bazouge, the undertaker’s helper, who lived on the sixth floor, who brought the coffin and the sack of bran.”
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