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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial
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- Emile Zola
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- Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Emile Zola: recorded author lifetime 1840–1902. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is emile-zola; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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