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Octave Mirbeau Quotes

Octave Mirbeau quotes

French Writer February 16, 1848 – February 16, 1917

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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 my soul, love was born in her? for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil. 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 conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment... Octave Mirbeau
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they... Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau quote: "Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest..."
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. Octave Mirbeau
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source. Octave Mirbeau
Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces andgardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garde? What Isay today, and what I heard, exists and cries and howls beyond this garden, which is no more than asymbol to me of the entire earth. Octave Mirbeau
After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes, our impoverished lovemaking. Her soul had remained over there, among the gigantic, poisonous flowers. She missed the mystery of old temples and the ardor of a sky blazing with fever, sensuality and death. The better to relive all these magnificent, raging memories, she became a recluse, spending entire days lying about on tiger skins,... Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau quote: "Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying..."
Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy. Octave Mirbeau
The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. Octave Mirbeau
On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the pavement with a strange noise. I saw the necks turning on top of broken spinal columns, hanging upon disjointed clavicles, arms sundered from the trunks, the trunks themselves losing their shape. And all these scraps of human bodies, stripped of their flesh by death, were rushing upon one another, forever spurred on by a homicidal fever, forever driven by... Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau quote: "When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's..."
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. Octave Mirbeau
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity. Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau quote: "The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion..."
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau quote: "The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity..."
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. Octave Mirbeau

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