“Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.” PeopleDoeInterestSolitudeLiving Alone Book:The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid Source: The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSocialMoralFashionAngerInstitutionsFoundationAbsurdDespiseConventionsObligedCowardlyFormality Book:The Torture Garden Source: The Torture Garden
“When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.” PeopleGivingSoulShowsTearsSmellNakedDecayVeils Book:The Diary of a Chambermaid Source: The Diary of a Chambermaid
“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.” PeopleRunningNamesRevolutionVoteSilentBeastHopelessVotersSheepButchersExecutionersSlaughterhousesBeastly Author:Octave Mirbeau
