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> [“Monsters, monsters! But there are no monsters! What you call monsters are superior forms, or forms beyond your understanding. Aren't the gods monsters? Isn't a man of genius a monster, like a tiger or a spider, like all individuals who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/monsters-monsters-but-there-are-no-monsters-what-you-call-monsters/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

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## More by Octave Mirbeau

> [“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/after-two-years-absence-she-finally-returned-to-chilly-europe-a/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/the-universe-appears-to-me-like-an-immense-inexorable-torture-garden/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/as-soon-as-i-find-myself-in-the-presence-of-a-rich-man-i-cannot-help/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/wherever-he-goes-whatever-he-does-he-will-always-see-that-word-murder/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/you-re-obliged-to-pretend-respect-for-people-and-institutions-you/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/why-flowers-are-violent-cruel-terrible-splendid-like-love/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/why-flowers-are-violent-cruel-terrible-and-splendid-like-love/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/sheep-run-to-the-slaughterhouse-silent-and-hopeless-but-at-least/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/solitude-does-not-consist-in-living-alone-it-consists-in-living-with/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [“You know how much Annie loved pearls. She owned some incomparable specimens…the most marvelous, I believe, that ever existed. You also remember the almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/you-know-how-much-annie-loved-pearls-she-owned-some-incomparable/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [“Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/alas-the-gates-of-life-never-swing-open-except-upon-death-never-open/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [“I desire her and I hate her. I would like to take her in my arms and embrace her till she smothered, till she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/i-desire-her-and-i-hate-her-i-would-like-to-take-her-in-my-arms-and/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [“Yes, there are some backs on the street which cry for the knife.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/yes-there-are-some-backs-on-the-street-which-cry-for-the-knife/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/children-by-nature-are-keen-passionate-and-curious-what-was-referred/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

> [Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octave-mirbeau/great-ladies-are-like-the-best-sauces-it-is-better-not-to-know-how/)

[Octave Mirbeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octave-mirbeau/)

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