Octave Mirbeau Quotes
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Octave Mirbeau Quotes & Sayings
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Great ladies ... are like the best sauces it is better not to know how they are made. — Octave Mirbeau
Yes, there are some backs on the streetwhich cry for the knife. — Octave Mirbeau
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
Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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
Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
Decay is inevitable, but death is not.
— The RZA
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
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid ... like love.
— Octave Mirbeau
Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
— Octave Mirbeau
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
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
— Octave Mirbeau
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
— Octave Mirbeau
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
— Octave Mirbeau
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
— Octave Mirbeau
Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.
— Eva Braun
You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
— Sally Gardner
