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" Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. "

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

" I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. "

" Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. "

" The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. "

" The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. "

" The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. "

" I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. "

" God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. "

" There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. "

" Men! The only animal in the world to fear. "

" Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad. "

" The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. "

" This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. "

" Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. "

" If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. "

" It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. "

" California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. "

" Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. "

" My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. "

" But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. "

" The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. "