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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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Novelist
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Political Journalist
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Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is 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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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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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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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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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