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

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. "

" I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. "

" Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. "

" 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. "

" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "

" Only in a novel are all things given full play. "

" I shall always be a priest of love. "

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

" 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. "

" The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. "

" For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. "

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

" Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. "

" 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. "

" The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? "

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

" 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. "

" God is only a great imaginative experience. "

" 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. "

" Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! "

" I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. "

" Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. "

" There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. "

" Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. "

" It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. "