"Murder is born of love, and love attains……" — Octave Mirbeau

"Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder."

— Octave Mirbeau

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17 Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone,…
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast…
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of…
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s…
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism,…
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them…
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person…
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what…

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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and… — Charles Kendall Adams
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. — Charles Kendall Adams
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it… — Thomas Carlyle
Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And… — Laozi
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end. — Charles Grandison Finney
If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious… — Thomas Merton
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. — Khalil Gibran
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who… — Rajneesh
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so… — Georges Braque
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also. — Paul Cezanne

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