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" All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. "

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" You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. "

" I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. "

" The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. "

" Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. "

" God doesn't know things. He is things. "

" The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. "

" I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. "