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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Emile Zola
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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
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Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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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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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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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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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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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
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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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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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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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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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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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