The Life of Emile Zola

?mile 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.

?mile Zola:
Why didn't Picquart say anything?

Lucie Dreyfus:
Colonel Picquart is a good officer. He kept silent at the request of his superiors.

?mile Zola:
You mean they KNEW and they ordered him to suppress the truth? Why,that's monstrous!

?mile Zola:
What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?

?mile 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.

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!

?mile Zola:
Perhaps you know of something better for me to criticize?

Minister of War:
Books? Books? I don't read books!

Paul Cezanne:
[Farewell goodbye to Zola] I won't write, but I'll remember.

?mile Zola:
Life is tricky.