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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
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Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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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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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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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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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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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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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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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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A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
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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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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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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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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
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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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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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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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