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“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.”
“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.”
“Only in a novel are all things given full play.”
“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”
“The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.”
“Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.”
“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”
“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”
“The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.”
“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.”
“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
“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.”
“The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.”
“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 never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.”
“I shall always be a priest of love.”
“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”
“The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.”