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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' - 'Joy of Life
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