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

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

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

" 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. "

" The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. "

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" I shall always be a priest of love. "

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" The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "