Octave Mirbeau Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: February 16, 1848 - February 16, 1917
Birthday: February 16
Death: February 16
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-gardenĂ¢â‚¬Â¦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.
source: Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.149, Library of Alexandria
topic: Lying, Flower, Passion, Social Institutions, Human Suffering, Hideous, Immense
