Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.
For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.
Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.
Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.
She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.
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.
Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
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