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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!
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
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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