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In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Emile Zola

Paris flared – Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
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Divine Future Greatness Justice Light Sun Truth
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Art Corner Creation Temperature
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Dead Fake Forge Line Style
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Photography View Yourself
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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Animal Appearance Connection Fate Fear Greatness Important Man
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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Confusion Dare Kind Mindset Nature
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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Growth Ideas People Time Young
Respectable people, What bastards!
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People Respect
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Ability Artist Gift Hard Work Talent
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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Ascend Cry Evil Heaven Life Necessary Physical
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLA

Fools Lying Sale Tears Virgin
It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
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Assistance Deserve Humble Necessary Sufficiant
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
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Stop Truth Way
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
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Creation Distress People Sadness
Yes! live life with every fibre of one’s being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
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Fibre Improvement Life Pain Rebel Surrender
Everything is only a dream.
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Dreams One Liner
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Myself Repeat Triumph Ultimate
Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Animal Cruelty Protection Responsibility
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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Existence Life Live Myself Purpose
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
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Artist Live Loud Myself
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Fertilizer Thinking World
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Development Intelligence Travel
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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Beautiful Intensity Myself Perfection Struggle
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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Beneath Civilization Human Live Smell
I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Cry Darkness Enlightenment Humanity Myself Passion Soul Suffering
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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Fear Fools School Teaching Wrong
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.
EMILE ZOLA

Each Other Heart Need Secret Talk Understand Word. Confession

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