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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
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Political Journalist
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Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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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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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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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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