When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventio… - Octave Mirbeau
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventio…
- Octave Mirbeau
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of … - Octave Mirbeau
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of …
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. - Octave Mirbeau
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love. - Octave Mirbeau
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap. - Octave Mirbeau
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
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. Mor… - 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. Mor…
Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you. - Octave Mirbeau
Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological … - 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 …
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, h… - Octave Mirbeau
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, h…
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