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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
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Individual
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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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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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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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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