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| Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. | | Uncategorized | |
| Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace. | | Uncategorized | |
| Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. | | God | |
| That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. | | Uncategorized | |
| The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth. | | Uncategorized | |
| The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment | | Business | |
| The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In | | Women | |
| The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. | | Men and Women | |
| The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. | | Uncategorized | |
| The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty | | Uncategorized | |
| The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everyone makes everything so easy for everybody else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. | | Uncategorized | |
| The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. | | Horses; Power | |
| The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. | | Men | |
| The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. | | Conscience; Mankind | |
| The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. | | Beauty; Soul | |
