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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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 you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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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 disease.
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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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, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
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