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

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

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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. – Octave Mirbeau

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