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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

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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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Deed
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World

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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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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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The vague torment of ... ambition.
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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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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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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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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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