246 Quotes by Émile Zola

‎"Well then! it was the end; his ruin was complete. Even if he mended the cables and lit the fires, where would he find men? Another fortnight's strike and he would be bankrupt. And in this certainty of disaster he no longer felt any hatred of the Montsou bandits; he felt that all had a hand in it, that it was a general agelong fault. They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.

Ne doutez pas de moi, laissez-moi la force de me vaincre.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

He only understood one thing well: the shaft swallowed men by mouthfuls of twenty or thirty, and with so easy a gulp that it seemed to feel nothing go down.

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

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

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

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

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.