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Quote by Octave Mirbeau

“Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!”

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Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist born on February 16, 1848, and died on the same day in 1917. He is known for his sharp satire and profound realism in his literary works. more

“Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.”

“Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.”

Giving Humans Desire Hell Horror Ideals Terror

Book:The Torture Garden

Source: The Torture Garden

“Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.”

Flower Shapes Scent Love Each Other Only Love

Author:Octave Mirbeau

“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…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: Torture Garden

“Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.”

Pieces Generations Campaigns Capture Sophisticated Factual Propensity Algorithms

Author:Chris Cunningham

“It should not be the government running the economy.”

Should Government Running Economy

Author:Quico Canseco

“There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.”

Way Giving Liberty Security Giving Up Dignity Airline Demeaning Airline Security

Author:Quico Canseco

“I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them”

Whole Sides Wonderful Groups Angel Crosses Contact Uncles Get Over Steep

Author:Dian Fossey

“Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.”

People Animal Harm Glad Animal Love

Book:The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint

Source: The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint

“We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind.”

Ifs Kind Differences Results Effort Compassion Ethics And Love Universal Caring Radical Generous Making A Difference Hopeful Positive Results

Author:Marc Bekoff

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