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" One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. "

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" 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. "

" Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" God doesn't know things. He is things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In every living thing there is the desire for love. "

" I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. "

" 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. "

" I shall always be a priest of love. "

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

" Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. "

" 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. "

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

" Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. "

" Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. "

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

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