"Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.…" — Octave Mirbeau
"Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love."
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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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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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While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what…
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a…
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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Terror made me cruel.
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