“Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of understanding and feeling. To her, the sun did not appear red enough, the nights pale enough, the skies deep enough. Her fleeting conception of things and beings condemned her fatally to a perversion of her senses, to vagaries of the spirit and left her nothing but the torment of an unachieved longing, the torture of unfulfilled desires.”
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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
“It is this, not the spirits, that frightens us; shall we never be free, even after we die?”
“Everyone has scars, they just aren’t as visible as yours.”
“He thought to himself, I’ll never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.”