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" Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. "

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" I shall always be a priest of love. "

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

" 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. "

" Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "

" The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. "

" The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. "

" There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. "

" Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. "

" The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. "

" God is only a great imaginative experience. "

" All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. "

" People always make war when they say they love peace. "

" Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. "

" Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. "

" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "

" Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. "

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

" I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. "

" The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. "

" Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "