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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. "

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" I shall always be a priest of love. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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