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Octave Mirbeau has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature!…
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Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a…
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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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.
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:…
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the…
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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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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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing…
— Ray Bradbury
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
— Omar N. Bradley
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
— Marlon Brando
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
— Lucretius
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We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so…
— Greg Norman
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…
— Marquis de Sade
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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice…
— Thomas Browne
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The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
— Anne Boleyn
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means,…
— Alexander Herzen
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Christianity is religion for the executioner.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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