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- I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the…
- If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains…
- Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even…
- I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self…
- Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment…
- The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
- Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity…
- Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million,…
- There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
- One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
- One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other…
- When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
- There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God,…
- 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…
- The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
- The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
- Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
- The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor…
- 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…
- 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…
- no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety…
- For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and…
- For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging…
- All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in…
- Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred…
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