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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

Octave Mirbeau Evil Human Nature Philosophy

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 Humanity Murder

Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of understanding and feeling. To her, the sun did not appear red enough, the nights pale enough, the skies deep enough. Her fleeting conception of things and beings condemned her fatally to a perversion of her senses, to vagaries of the spirit and left her nothing but the torment of an unachieved longing, the torture of unfulfilled desires.

~ Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau Emotions Femme Inner Life Sad Sadness She Spirit

I understood that the law of the world was strife; an inexorable, murderous law, which was not content with arming nation against nation but which hurled against one another the children of the same race, the same family, the same womb. I found none of the lofty abstractions of honor, justice, charity, patriotism of which our standard books are so full, on which we are brought up, with which we are lulled to sleep, through which they hypnotize us in order the better to deceive the kind little folk, to enslave them the more easily, to butcher them the more foully.

~ Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau Octave Octave Mirbeau Spirit Truth

I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew that from the way she used to embrace me.

~ Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau Illness Octave Mirbeau She Suffer Suffering

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 suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.

~ Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau Civilization Life

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

~ Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau Great War On Terrorism Terrorism

But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it raises to the throne as quickly as it does its martyrs whom it hoists on the gibbet; in its perpetual hunger for new playthings, it never gets itself excited overly much before the statues of its heroes or at the sight of the blood of its victims.

~ Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau Paris Tired
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