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

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

" 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. "

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

" Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. "

" Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. "

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

" But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. "

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

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

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

" If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. "

" 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. "

" I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. "

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

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

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

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