Eternal Human Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

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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.
• There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
• Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature!…
• Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
• Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a…
• Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
• Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
• The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:…
• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the…
• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
• To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then…

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