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" People always make war when they say they love peace. "

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" 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. "

" It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. "

" Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. "

" 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. "

" Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. "

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

" 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. "

" One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. "

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

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

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

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" The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. "

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" The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. "

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" I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. "

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