The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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This quote is just one of 3 total Octave Mirbeau quotes in our collection. Octave Mirbeau is known for saying 'The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
This quote is just one of 3 total Octave Mirbeau quotes in our collection. Octave Mirbeau is known for saying 'The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.' as well as some of the following quotes.