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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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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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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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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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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 vague torment of ... ambition.
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How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Everything is only a dream.
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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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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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 past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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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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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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