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Octave Mirbeau - The Torture Garden (1899)

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

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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden… Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

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Flowers do not indulge in sentiment. They indulge in passion, nothing but passion. They make love all the time.

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

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Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau

Born: February 16, 1848
Died: February 16, 1917 (aged 69)
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