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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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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.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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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.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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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.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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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!
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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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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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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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.
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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.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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