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Portrait of Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau

(1848–1917) Playwright France

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Octave Mirbeau was a playwright from France, best known for Le jardin des supplices.

Quick Facts About Octave Mirbeau

Born: February 16, 1848
Died: February 16, 1917
Nationality: France
Profession: Playwright
Notable works: Le jardin des supplices
Known for: The Diary of a Chambermaid
Spouse: Alice Regnault

About Octave Mirbeau

Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Octave Mirbeau · Page 2

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling…

Death

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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Decay

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Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Death

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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…

Learning

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Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

Flower

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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Desire

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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Grows

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While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another…

Air

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