"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."

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About Emile Zola

Emile Zola was a French novelist, journalist, and leading figure of literary naturalism. He wrote the Rougon-Macquart cycle and became a major public intellectual through his defense of Alfred Dreyfus. His writing and political interventions had lasting influence on modern French culture.

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