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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!

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
Short Story Writer
Theatre Critic
Paris
France
Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
Life
Cry
Physical
Necessary
Moral
Imploring
Heaven
Ascend
Evil
Wretchedness
Ever
Cries
Must
Indeed

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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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