The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is … - Emile Zola

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We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.

Emile Zola

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

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