Octave Mirbeau

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Octave Mirbeau


Born
in Trévières, France
February 16, 1848

Died
February 16, 1917

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Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has been translated into thirty languages.

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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

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

“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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The Bostonians by Henry James, 1886, 460pp
 
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The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, 121, 363pp
 
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