“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 Mirbeau23
French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, … 1848–1917Related quotes
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
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.”
Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand
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.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
W.B. Yeats book The Winding Stair and Other Poems
A Last Confession http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1404/, St. 3 & 4 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) <br class="br">Context: p>I gave what other women gave<br>That stepped out of their clothes.<br>But when this soul, its body off,<br>Naked to naked goes,<br>He it has found shall find therein<br>What none other knows,And give his own and take his own<br>And rule in his own right;<br>And though it loved in misery<br>Close and cling so tight,<br>There’s not a bird of day that dare<br>Extinguish that delight.</p
