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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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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope…
— Ayn Rand
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The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right…
— Unknown Author
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself…
— Janet Morris
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I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and…
— Bill Maher
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take…
— Charles Spurgeon
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He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one,…
— John Dryden
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you…
— Boris Pasternak
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You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
— John C. Maxwell
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When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming…
— Mel White
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