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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of…
— Richard Sibbes
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Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no…
— Emmet Fox
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How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
— Marcus Aurelius
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got…
— Laurence Sterne
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I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.
— Anthony Mary Claret
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Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer…
— William Bligh
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You are strangely troublesome.
— William Shakespeare
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To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
— James Bryce
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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing…
— George Bernard Shaw
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