Echoes of Truth: 10 Profound Quotes from Émile Zola
"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- "If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
- "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- "I am here to live out loud and tell the truth, even if my voice shakes."
- "The truth is on the march, and nothing can stop it."
- "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."
- "The artist is the lover of Nature, therefore he is her slave and her master."
- "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."
- "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."
- "I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
- "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
