"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
"Everything is only a dream."
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Source: Emile Zola (2016). “The Dream (Le rêve )”, p.252, Emile Zola
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Emile Zola was a French novelist known for his influential works on social realism, particularly 'Germinal', which critiques class struggles.
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