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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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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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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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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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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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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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