Other Titles • The Life of Emile Zola (1937) • Das Leben Emile Zolas (1937)
Quotes from The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
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Émile Zola: At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal, which is the representative of human justice, before France, before the whole world, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent! By all that I have won, by all that I have written to spread the spirit of France, I swear that he is innocent. May all that melt away; may my name perish if Dreyfus be not innocent. He is innocent.
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Émile Zola: Why didn't Picquart say anything? Lucie Dreyfus: Colonel Picquart is a good officer. He kept silent at the request of his superiors. Émile Zola: You mean they KNEW and they ordered him to suppress the truth? Why,that's monstrous!
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Émile Zola: What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?
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Émile Zola: [reading from his letter "I Accuse"] I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.
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