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TORTURE GARDEN Liberty has no other limits than yourself... Nor love anything but the triumphant variety of your desires. Hypocritical barbaric civilisation is a lie. What else do you find but lies? You lie to yourself & others - you lie about that, in the depths of your soul, you recognise as the truth? You are forced to pretend outward respect for people & institutions which you find ridiculous. You remain cowardly attached to moral or social conventions you despise, condemn & which you know lack all foundation. Its the permanent contradiction between your ideas & desires on the one hand & all the dead forms & vain phantoms of your civilisation on the other makes you sad, troubled & unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life & feeling of personality. Because every moment the free play of your strength is restrained, impeded & checked. That’s the poisonous & mortal wound of the civilised world. OCTAVE MIRBEAU |
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