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- Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
- If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
- The chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be…
- One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
- Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
- The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is…
- It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
- Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own…
- I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that…
- To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and…
- We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of…
- If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a…
- I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief…
- This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than…
- I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life…
- It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times,…
- Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long…
- But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do…
- Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.
- What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no,…
- I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
- the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs,…
- Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror,…
- But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful…
- You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on…
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