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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
French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
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A French writer who managed the rare trick of pleasing both the masses and the avant-garde by writing novels that didn't look away from violence, abuse, and the cold mechanics of detachment.
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Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau was born on 16 February 1848 and spent his career working across forms — novels, art criticism, travel writing, pamphlets, journalism, plays. He became a celebrity across Europe by writing transgressive fiction that explored the darker currents of human behavior without flinching. The work found readers in both popular and experimental circles, a balance few writers strike. He died on his birthday in 1917, sixty-nine years to the day after he was born. His books have since been translated into thirty languages.
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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.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people’s souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.” (Diary of a Chambermaid)
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious.
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Dead trees enclosed the bodies of men and women, violently distorted and subjected to hideous and shameful tortures.” (Garden of Tortures)
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