Edward Carpenter Quotes

• Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

  Edward Carpenter

  Couple, Garden, Eden

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• Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

  Edward Carpenter

  Women, Mind, World

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• Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

  Edward Carpenter

  Strong, Block, Heart

  Edward Carpenter “The Intermediate Sex”, Routledge

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• Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

  Edward Carpenter

  Real, Journey, Thinking

  "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study in Social Evolution".

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• IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

  Edward Carpenter

  Dream, Father, Land

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

  Edward Carpenter

  Eye, Animal, Soul

  Edward Carpenter, Tony Brown (1990). “Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism”, p.40, Psychology Press

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• We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

  Edward Carpenter

  Night, Sea, Two

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

  Edward Carpenter

  Joy, Coaching, Elements

  Edward Carpenter (1905). “Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Treatment of Crime and Criminals”

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• Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

  Edward Carpenter

  Mom, Motherhood, Incomparable

  Edward Carpenter (1948). “Love's coming of age; a series of papers on the relation of the sexes”

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• I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

  Edward Carpenter

  Might, Armchairs, Knows

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

  Edward Carpenter

  Reading, Happened

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• I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

  Edward Carpenter

  Smile, Squares, Police

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• Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

  Edward Carpenter

  Doe, Examination, Originality

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

  Edward Carpenter

  Horse, Years, Choices

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• My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

  Edward Carpenter

  Years, Ideas, Shapes

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

  Edward Carpenter

  College, Should Have, Law

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

  Edward Carpenter

  Taken, Doe, Facts

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

  Edward Carpenter

  Men, Crowds, Firsts

  "My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes".

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• When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

  Edward Carpenter

  Father, Philosophy, Long

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

  Edward Carpenter

  Rude, Mind, Details

  Edward Carpenter (1984). “Selected Writings: Sex”

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