Octave Mirbeau (Author of The Torture Garden)

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Books by Octave Mirbeau

Average rating: 3.73 · 629 ratings · 70 reviews · 48 distinct works

	The Torture Garden 3.77 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 1899 — 35 editions	My rating:
	The Diary of a Chambermaid: A Naughty French Novel by Octave Mirbeau, John Baxter (Introduction) 3.44 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1900 — 47 editions	My rating:
	Le Calvaire 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1886 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Abbe Jules 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1888 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sebastien Roch 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1890 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Les Vingt Et Un Jours D'un Neurasthe&#X301;Nique 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Contes cruels, #1 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Romans Autobiographiques 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	La folle et autres nouvelles 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Contes cruels, #2 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That'��s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
― Octave Mirbeau

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“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”
― Octave Mirbeau

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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.”
― Octave Mirbeau, Le Jardin des Supplices

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