"Sin contaminates everything. It is an all-encompassing stench, it corrupts love, it infects the room of spouses, the cradle of newborns, even the flowers languishing in the heat of the sun, even the trees that are shedding their buds. The earth swims in this impurity, from the smallest drop of which the flower of infamy sprouts.
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Author
Émile ZolaAll Translations
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Sin contaminates everything. It is an all-encompassing stench, it corrupts love, it infects the room of spouses, the cradle of newborns, even the flowers languishing in the heat of the sun, even the trees that are shedding their buds. The earth swims in this impurity, from the smallest drop of which the flower of infamy sprouts.
""A bűn mindent beszennyez. Mindent elborító bűz ez, megrontja a szeretetet, megfertőzi a házastársak szobáját, az újszülöttek bölcsőjét, még a napmelegben bágyadozó virágokat, még a rügyeiket fakasztó fákat is. A föld úszik ebben a tisztátalanságban, melynek legkisebb cseppjéből is gyalázat virága sarjad."