Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in…

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is...

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is...

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and...

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and...

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source...

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source...

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it...

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it...

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can...

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can...

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But...

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But...

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark...

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark...

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get...

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get...

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying...

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying...

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.... I live in 1924,...

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.... I live in 1924,...

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be...

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be...

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman...

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman...

It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to...

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to...

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear...

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear...