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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
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Emile Zola
Age: 62 †
Born: 1840
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: January 1
Art Critic
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Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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