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“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”
“It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.”
“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”
“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.”
“God doesn't know things. He is things.”
“Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.”
“God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.”
“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.”
“Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.”
“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”
“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.”
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
“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.”
“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.”
“Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.”