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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

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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
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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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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
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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 thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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The vague torment of ... ambition.
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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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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
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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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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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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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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
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