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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Emile Zola

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
EMILE ZOLA

History Lesson People Time Tolerance
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
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Growth Shut Truth Yourself
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Ability Artist Gift Hard Work Talent
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
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Photography View Yourself
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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Dreams Fear Happiness Oneself Regret
My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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Cry Fire Myself Protest Soul
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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Cheek Kiss Lover Search
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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Blow Choke Force Truth
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Boredom Death Myself Passion
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Force Government Literature
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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Artist Man Nurtue Poet Talent
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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Enough Happiness Hollow Joy Live Strict Virtue Woman
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
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Cold Happiness Herself Nature Passion Virtuous
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLA

Beginning Calculation Fierce Peasant
Respectable people, What bastards!
EMILE ZOLA

People Respect

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

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