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
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
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.
Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.
What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.