"Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious.……" — Octave Mirbeau
"Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher."
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Octave Mirbeau
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17 Quotes by Octave Mirbeau
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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,…
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
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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…
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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,…
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them…
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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…
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