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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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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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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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