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

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Source : Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

Octave Mirbeau

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“I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!”
“They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.”
“I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.”
“If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of view of operations.”
“British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.”
“Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)”
“The mind is just another muscle.”
“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”

Source : "River of Smoke". Book by Amitav Ghosh, 2011.

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