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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola

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
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
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Myself Praise Reality Temperature True Word
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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Believe Happiness Myself Promise Science Truth
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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Myself Repeat Triumph Ultimate
Blow the candle out, I don’t need to see what my thoughts look like.
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Blow Myself Need See Thinking
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Each Other Happiness Love People
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
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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History Lesson People Time Tolerance
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
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
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Believe Better Force Intellect Live Love
The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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Ordinary Pregnant Revolution
Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
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Animal Cruelty Protection Responsibility
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
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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Blame Creation Crime Life Love Money
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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Death Enjoyment Fingers Job Strangle
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

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

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