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- Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means…
- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
- Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to…
- One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the…
- Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point…
- Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the…
- To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the…
- To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed…
- I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from…
- To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
- For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
- I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
- I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my…
- The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
- Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's…
- A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become…
- To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the…
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