I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its...

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its...

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going...

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going...

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is...

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen...

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur...

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur...

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry...

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry...

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test...

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test...

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty...

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty...

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul,...

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul,...

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my...

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my...

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving...

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving...

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to...

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to...

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A...

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A...

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved....

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved....