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" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "

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" Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. "

" 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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" My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. "

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" 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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" 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 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. "

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