"Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless,……" — Octave Mirbeau
"Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought."
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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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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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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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While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what…
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