“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.”
Love“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Art“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.”
Love“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”
Peace“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
Dreams“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”
Freedom“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”
Happiness“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
Freedom“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”
Art“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”
Business“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”
Age“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
Business“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
Nature“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
Sad“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
Truth“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
Age“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”
God“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
Experience“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.”
Experience“Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”
Art“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”
Humor“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”
Experience