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

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" Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. "

" I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. "

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

" Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! "

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

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

" 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. "

" The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. "

" Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. "

" 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. "

" The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. "

" Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. "

" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. "

" Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. "

" 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. "

" My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. "

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

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