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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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Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
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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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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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