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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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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Octave Mirbeau
Born:
February 16, 1848
Died:
February 16, 1917
(aged 69)
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