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- Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make…
- He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up,…
- The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
- I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
- If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
- And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully,…
- My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It…
- The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask…
- ...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...
- In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up,…
- It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep…
- 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…
- 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,…
- You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if…
- When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and…
- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to…
- Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren…
- I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred…
- Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and…
- Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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