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Émile Zola

“He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.”

Émile Zola, La Curée
tags: debauchery, vice
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La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2) La Curée by Émile Zola
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