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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
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Paris
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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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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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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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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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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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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
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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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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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