Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. "

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. "

" 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. "

" I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. "

" It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. "

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

" 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 Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. "

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

" For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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