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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

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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
Intelligence
Travel
Nothing
Like
Develops

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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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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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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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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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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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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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Everything is only a dream.
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It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
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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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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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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 something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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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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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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