“Dead trees enclosed the bodies of men and women, violently distorted and subjected to hideous and shameful tortures.” (Garden of Tortures)
Octave Mirbeau
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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.” (Garden of Tortures)
Octave Mirbeau
“There is something more mysteriously attractive than beauty: it is corruption.” (Garden of Tortures)
Octave Mirbeau
“It is no exaggeration to say that the main aim of upper-class existence is to enjoy the filthiest of amusements.” (Garden of Tortures)
Octave Mirbeau
“Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.” (Garden of Tortures)
Octave Mirbeau
“Murder is born in love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.” (Garden of Tortures)
Octave Mirbeau
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