Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.
We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
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