“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
Love“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
Fear“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
Love“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”
Death“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“Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.”
Women“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”
Change“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
Nature“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“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
Dreams“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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
Life“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.”
Dreams“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“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
Sad“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”
Art“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
Fear“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”
Peace“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“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
Trust“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”
Religion“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”
Death