Octave Mirbeau book The Torture Garden
Variant: “It isn’t dying that’s sad. It’s living when you’re not happy.”
Source: Le Jardin des supplices
“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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