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/ page 435 of 1205 /The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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