The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man...

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man...

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't...

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't...

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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

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

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of...

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of...

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way,...

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way,...

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.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are...

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are...

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is...

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is...

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in...

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in...

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those...

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those...

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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 never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.