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
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
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.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?