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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

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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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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' - 'Joy of Life
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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