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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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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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