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

" 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. "

" The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. "

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

" How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. "

" 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. "

" A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. "

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

" When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. "

" Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. "

" 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! "

" Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. "

" I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. "

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

" 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. "

" The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. "

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

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