I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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 that there is in life, it seems to me.
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.
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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.
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.
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
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.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
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