Emile Zola Quotes
One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!
Zola, Émile. Doctor Pascal. Translated by Mary J. Serrano, Cassell Publishing Company, 1893, p. 115.
The prime minister was advised to be more humble in her dealings with other statesmen. She had also told Moshe Dayan that he was not great enough to be humble.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. According to major Zola scholar and biographer Henri Mitterand, "Naturalism contributes something more than realism: the attention brought to bear on the most lush and opulent aspects of people and the natural world. The realist writer reproduces the object's image impersonally, while the naturalist writer is an artist of temperament." 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.
