Octave Mirbeau Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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Nothing recedes like success.
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People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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Will the industry outsource more? I think it depends on the client base.
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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.
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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.
