Emile Zola
French novelist, critic, and political activist
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
- Emile Zola
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
- Emile Zola
An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
- Emile Zola
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
- Emile Zola
I am here to live out loud.
- Emile Zola
From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
- Emile Zola
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
- Emile Zola
Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it — my honor!
- Emile Zola
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
- 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