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Octave Mirbeau Quotes: Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.
         

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.


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



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‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.



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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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Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.



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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.



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Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.



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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!





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