The Life of Emile Zola
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:01:47
It's no use, Émile.
The place is like a sieve.

:01:51
It would take all the rags in Paris
to stuff half its holes.

:01:55
Paris.
:01:57
Vast. Motionless.
:02:00
A gigantic mother brooding over her
millions of children, good and bad.

:02:05
It's magnificent, Cézanne.
You must paint it.

:02:09
As someday I shall write it.
:02:11
No, Zola. It's hopeless.
:02:14
You know that people don't want
to see the stark face of truth.

:02:20
They would much prefer
perfumed lights like these.

:02:25
They ought to be burned
like something unclean.

:02:29
Why, Paul, that's splendid.
:02:31
Why didn't you think of that before?
We shall have a fire!

:02:35
- We could sell them and...
- What?

:02:37
And expose others
to their stinking hypocrisies?

:02:40
No, my friend. We'll burn them...
:02:43
...and let their lying pages
warm the bones of men of truth!

:02:48
There we are.
:02:53
Well, look at that. Even the old stove
rebels at the vile trash.


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