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

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" 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. "

" Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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! "

" California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. "

" 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. "

" One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. "

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" 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. "

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

" Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "