Émile Zola: The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. ... It’s like a germ planted in the skull that devours the bra

The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. ... It’s like a germ p — Émile Zola

The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. ... It’s like a germ planted in the skull that devours the brain, spreads to the trunk and the limbs, and destroys the entire body in time.

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Etre pauvre à Paris, c'est être pauvre deux fois. — Émile Zola
Could he love this one, without killing her? — Émile Zola
There are two men inside the artist , the poet and the craftsman. One is born a — Émile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. — Émile Zola
The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value . — Karl Marx
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the who — Karl Marx
But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment t — Karl Marx
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction. — Karl Marx
White House Biography — Abraham Lincoln
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With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, d — William Mountford
One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One moment, of the Well of Life to taste — T — Omar Khayyám