You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

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.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd,...

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd,...

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than...

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than...

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.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must...

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must...

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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,...

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything...

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything...

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

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

God doesn't know things. He is things.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

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,...

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling...

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling...

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.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't...

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't...

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul....

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul....

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.