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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
Nothing
Like
Develops
Intelligence
Travel

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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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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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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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The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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The vague torment of ... ambition.
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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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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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Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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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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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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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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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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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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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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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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In love as in speculation there is much filth in love also, people think only of their own gratification yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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