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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.
Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.
What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.
It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.
It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.
[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.