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"Lidée de la mort, jetée avec désespoir entre deux baisers, revenait implacable et aiguë."
Émile ZolaThe rage for debasing things was inborn in her. It did not suffice her — Émile Zola
"The rage for debasing things was inborn in her. It did not suffice her to destroy them, she must soil them too."
The rage for debasing things was inborn in her. It did not suffice her to destroy them, she must soil them too.
Émile Zola
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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in
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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in
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"She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn’t give yourself?"
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"What misery! and all these girls, broken by fatigue, were silly enough to come here at night and make babies, more flesh to toil and suffer! It would never end while they went on getting themselves filled with starvelings. Ought they not rather to stop up their wombs and close their thighs tight against approaching disaster? But then, perhaps he was only harbouring these dismal thoughts because he resented being alone when all the others were pairing off to take their pleasure."
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"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!"
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