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The Life of Emile Zola Quotes
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.
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.
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!
La Rue: We've been watching your writings, young man. You're a troublemaker! These articles of yours, attacking our leading men of letters, the arts! Criticizing the civic authorities!
Émile Zola: Perhaps you know of something better for me to criticize?
Émile Zola: Not only is an innocent man crying out for justice, but more, much more—a great nation is in desperate danger of forfeiting her honor!
Movie Quotes
1930s Oscar Winners for Best Picture:1939: Gone with the Wind
1938: You Can't Take It with You
1937: The Life of Emile Zola
1936: The Great Ziegfeld
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1934: It Happened One Night
1932-1933: Cavalcade
1931-1932: Grand Hotel
1930-1931: Cimarron
1929-1930: All Quiet on the Western Front
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