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 oranges and scrub the floor.
What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated It is sickening Why must all experience be systematized A museum is not a first-hand contact it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
Men The only animal in the world to fear.
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
I shall always be a priest of love.
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
America does to me what I knew it would do it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump bump go the trucks. And that is human contact.
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependant on tradition adn second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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