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" I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. "

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" I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. "

" 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. "

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

" The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. "

" I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. "

" Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. "

" God is only a great imaginative experience. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. "

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

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

" Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. "

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

" They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. "

" Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. "

" 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. "