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" When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. "

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" 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. "

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

" Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "

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