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Octave Mirbeau

Geburtstag: 16. Februar 1848
Todesdatum: 16. Februar 1917

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Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau war ein französischer Journalist, Kunstkritiker und Romanautor und zählt „zu den schillerndsten Persönlichkeiten der Literatur der französischen Belle Époque“. Seine Komödie Geschäft ist Geschäft gehörte nach 1903 zu den meistgespielten Stücken an deutschen Theatern.

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Zitate Octave Mirbeau

„The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.“

—  Octave Mirbeau
Pour Jean Grave, Le Journal (19 Feb 1894)

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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

„“Each footstep taken in this society bristles with privileges, and is marked with a bloodstain; each turn of the government machinery grinds the tumbling, gasping flesh of the poor; and tears are running from everywhere in the impenetrable night of suffering. Facing these endless murders and continuous tortures, what's the meaning of society, this crumbling wall, this collapsing staircase?”“

—  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.” (Garden of Tortures)“

—  Octave Mirbeau

„“Dead trees enclosed the bodies of men and women, violently distorted and subjected to hideous and shameful tortures.” (Garden of Tortures)“

—  Octave Mirbeau

„“Murder is born in love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.” (Garden of Tortures)“

—  Octave Mirbeau

„“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

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„“I feel something like a powerful oppression, like an immense fatigue after marching across fever-laden jungles, or by the shores of deadly lakes…And I am flooded by discouragement, so that it seems I shall never be able to escape from myself again.”“

—  Octave Mirbeau

„“There is something more mysteriously attractive than beauty: it is corruption.” (Garden of Tortures)“

—  Octave Mirbeau

„“Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious “right” a revolution was fought.” (Voters' strike)“

—  Octave Mirbeau

„“Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.”“

—  Octave Mirbeau

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„“During Humankind’s long centuries societies have risen and fallen, all alike in this one fact which rules all history: the great are protected, the small are crushed.”“

—  Octave Mirbeau

„“Every intellectual effort is bent towards committing the most diversified violations upon the human being.”“

—  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

„“To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.” (Garden of Tortures)“

—  Octave Mirbeau

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