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" 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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" Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. "

" You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. "

" Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. "

" I shall always be a priest of love. "

" I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. "

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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. "

" The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. "

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

" Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. "