“When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people’s souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.”
Diary ot a Chambermaid
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Octave Mirbeau 23
French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, … 1848–1917Related quotes
Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.
“So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.”
Closing lines.
The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)
“Why tear off a single page when you can throw away the book?”
Torches Together.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
“Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.”
Pearls of Wisdom
A Last Confession http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1404/, St. 3 & 4
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Context: p>I gave what other women gave
That stepped out of their clothes.
But when this soul, its body off,
Naked to naked goes,
He it has found shall find therein
What none other knows,And give his own and take his own
And rule in his own right;
And though it loved in misery
Close and cling so tight,
There’s not a bird of day that dare
Extinguish that delight.</p
