“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
