Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Émile Zola?
→ The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
→ At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
→ I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
→ Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.