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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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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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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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 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 camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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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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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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The vague torment of ... ambition.
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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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 thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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