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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.
For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.