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Octave Mirbeau
Author profile
born
in France
February 16, 1848
died
February 16, 1917
gender
male
genre
About this author
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The Torture Garden
— published 1899 — 41 editions |
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
by Octave Mirbeau, John Baxter — published 1900 — 39 editions |
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Le Calvaire
— published 1886 — 6 editions |
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Sebastien Roch
— published 1890 — 2 editions |
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Abbe Jules
— published 1888 — 4 editions |
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Memoria de Georges el amargado
by Octave Mirbeau, Lluis Maria Todo — published 2009 |
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Interpellations
by Octave Mirbeau, Serge Quadruppani , Jean-Baptiste Bernard — published 2011 |
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Les Vingt Et Un Jours D'un NeurasthéNique
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Contes cruels, #1
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Romans Autobiographiques
— published 1991 |
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“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
― Octave Mirbeau
“The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.”
― Octave Mirbeau
― Octave Mirbeau
“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
― Octave Mirbeau
