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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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Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.
— Jo Brand
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The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to…
— Tom Peters
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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
— Mark Twain
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Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes…
— William Shakespeare
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Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
— Francis Bacon
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When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;…
— William Shakespeare
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When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the…
— Pope John Paul II
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It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in…
— Jacques Ellul
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But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity…
— Sam Abell
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Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety…
— Lord Acton
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