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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
Deeds
Thought
World
Fertilizes
Deed

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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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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' - 'Joy of Life
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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The vague torment of ... ambition.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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