Emile Zola
Emile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 April 1840
CountryFrance
Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety
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
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
Lovers are made by a kiss.
My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
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.
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
Respectable people... What bastards!