โThe greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
Octave MirbeauDesire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
Octave MirbeauNatureโs constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. Thereโs only love.
Octave MirbeauCome now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.
Octave MirbeauWoman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.
Octave Mirbeau