The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, — Octave Mirbeau
Great ladies … are like the best sauces — it is better not to know how they are made. — Octave Mirbeau
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people’s souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. — Octave Mirbeau
