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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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Political Journalist
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Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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 vague torment of ... ambition.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that she wanted to live!
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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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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