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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.
Emile Zola
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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
Art
Negation
Affirmation
Demands
Rules
Demand
Outside
Society
Individual
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that she wanted to live!
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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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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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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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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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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