“ 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 r… 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 foundatio… Octave Mirbeau
“ 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 hu… Octave Mirbeau
“ The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. Octave Mirbeau
“ 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
“ 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 dee… 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
“ 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 m… Octave Mirbeau
