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The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.
The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.
I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.