Octave Mirbeau Quote: "Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, ..."

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Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.

Octave Mirbeau / Journalist
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Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.

⇛ Octave Mirbeau (Journalist)

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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

Octave Mirbeau Journalist

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

Octave Mirbeau Journalist

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

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Morton Feldman Composer

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.