“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

— Émile Zola · Life quote

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. — Émile Zola quote card
Novelist · 1840 – 1902

Émile Zola was a French novelist and the leading figure of literary naturalism, whose twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle traces a family through the Second Empire. His open letter J'Accuse...! in defence of Alfred Dreyfus became a landmark of political journalism.

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