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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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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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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 conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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