Emile Zola Quotes

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. ...more

Birth: April 02, 1840 - Death: September 29, 1902

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another’s lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Topic(s): Made , Feelings , Kissing

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Topic(s): Views , Photography , Photograph

Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Topic(s): Men , Animal , Duty

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

Topic(s): Reason , Strong

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

Topic(s): Century , History , Lessons

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Topic(s): Boys , Sin , Ought

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

Topic(s): People , Ifs , Littles

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

Topic(s): Humans , Wells , Doe

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

Topic(s): Humans , Art , Boundaries

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Topic(s): Soul , Cry , Protest

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Topic(s): Ifs , Sometimes , Turns

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