Émile Zola: From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture.

From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. — Émile Zola

From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture.

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La certitude d'avoir empêche de désirer. — Émile Zola
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make — Friedrich Nietzsche
Misrepresentation spoils narration. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
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Crever pour crever, je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui! — Émile Zola
At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt p — John Heyl Vincent
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few. — Benjamin Franklin