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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

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Emile Zola
Age: 62 †
Born: 1840
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: January 1
Art Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Playwright
Poet
Political Journalist
Short Story Writer
Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
Loud
Artist
Art
Live

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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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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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In love as in speculation there is much filth in love also, people think only of their own gratification yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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Everything is only a dream.
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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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