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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Emile Zola

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
EMILE ZOLA

Reason Strong Truth
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
EMILE ZOLA

Beginning Calculation Fierce Peasant
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
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Photography View Yourself
If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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Allow Hack Myself Part Willing
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
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Death Food Load Myself Quantity
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
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Artist Conclusion
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
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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Each Other Happiness Love People
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
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Delight Garden Growth Leaving Myself Passion
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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Art Corner Creation Temperature
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
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Fertilizer Thinking World
One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
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Dead Fake Forge Line Style
The vague torment of ambition.
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Ambition One Liner
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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End Gratitude Life Love People Thinking World
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
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Civilization Fall Myself Perfection Priest Stone

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