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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.
The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.