Emile Zola

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

— Emile Zola

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

— Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

— Emile Zola

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

— Emile Zola

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

— Emile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

— Emile Zola

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

— Emile Zola

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 at ease in my generation.

— Emile Zola

Existence is so bitter for every one of us! Ought we not forgive others much, my friend, if we wish to be forgiven ourselves?

— Emile Zola

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

— Emile Zola

Everything is only a dream.

— Emile Zola

Paris flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

— Emile Zola

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.

— Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!

— Emile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

— Emile Zola

Sir, Would you allow me, grateful as I am for the kind reception you once extended to me, to show my concern about maintaining your well-deserved prestige and to point out that your star which, until now, has shone so brightly, risks being dimmed by the most shameful and indelible of stains?

— Emile Zola

And now we come to the Esterhazy case. Three years have passed, many consciences remain profoundly troubled, become anxious, investigate, and wind up convinced that Dreyfus is innocent.

— Emile Zola

Lt. Colonel Picquart had carried out his duty as an honest man. He kept insisting to his superiors in the name of justice. He even begged them, telling them how impolitic it was to temporize in the face of the terrible storm that was brewing and that would break when the truth became known.

— Emile Zola

The Esterhazy affair, thus, Mr. President, comes down to this: a guilty man is being passed off as innocent. For almost two months we have been following this nasty business hour by hour. I am being brief, for this is but the abridged version of a story whose sordid pages will some day be written out in full.

— Emile Zola

Ah, what a cesspool of folly and foolishness, what preposterous fantasies, what corrupt police tactics, what inquisitorial, tyrannical practices! What petty whims of a few higher-ups trampling the nation under their boots, ramming back down their throats the people's cries for truth and justice, with the travesty of state security as a pretext.

— Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

— Emile Zola

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

— Emile Zola

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

— Emile Zola

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

— Emile Zola

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

— Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

— Emile Zola