246 Quotes by Émile Zola

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

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

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

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.

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.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.