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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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
Incapacity
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Humans
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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