Emile Zola Quotes

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

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.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

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.

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.

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

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.