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Octave Mirbeau quotes: Great ladies ... are like the best sauces it is better not to know how they are made.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces
it is better not to know how they are made.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: Yes, there are some backs on the streetwhich cry for the knife.

Yes, there are some backs on the street
which cry for the knife.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: In that atrocious second I understood that desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual idea of hell and its horror.

In that atrocious second I understood that desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual idea of hell and its horror.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: 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.

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 quotes: When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: Nature's constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There's only love.

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 quotes: The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

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

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

Octave Mirbeau quotes: Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid ... like love.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid ... like love.

Octave Mirbeau quotes: Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.