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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.
Emile Zola
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Emile Zola
Age: 62 †
Born: 1840
Born: January 1
Died: 1902
Died: January 1
Art Critic
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Paris
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Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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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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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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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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 do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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