"Come now, don't make such a funeral face.……" — Octave Mirbeau
"Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy."
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Octave Mirbeau
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17 Quotes by Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau has 17 quotes on this site.
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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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Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast…
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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…
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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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Come now. let us reason together.
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Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the…
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Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are…
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...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute…
— Patrick O'Brian
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If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria,” Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, “I will…
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Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like…
— Anne Rice
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You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself."…
— Cassandra Clare
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One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this…
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