Octave Mirbeau

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


— Octave Mirbeau


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


— Octave Mirbeau


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


— Octave Mirbeau


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Did you know about Octave Mirbeau?

Le Jardin des supplices (1899) (Torture Garden New York 1931; The Garden of Tortures London 1938). Dialogues tristes Eurédit 2005. Interpellations (2011).

His work has been translated into thirty languages.