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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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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for…
— Franz Boas
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
— Phillips Brooks
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You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray…
— Phillips Brooks
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for…
— James M. Barrie
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the…
— John F. Kennedy
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They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.
— Lisa Jewell
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Use your powers for good instead of evil
— Nnedi Okorafor
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Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment.…
— Guy Kawasaki
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Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.…
— George Santayana
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Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find,…
— William Osler
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