• Art and Culture

  Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many

  4.3 · 31 votes · 146 reads

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• Various

  But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

  4.8 · 39 votes · 157 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

  4.4 · 23 votes · 129 reads

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• Nature

  Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen

  3.0 · 11 votes · 45 reads

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• Society

  Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the ''dragon,'' in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid s

  3.6 · 64 votes · 123 reads

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• Countries

  God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  3.8 · 21 votes · 178 reads

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• Society

  God is only a great imaginative experience.

  3.9 · 44 votes · 92 reads

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• Nature

  I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

  4.8 · 12 votes · 180 reads

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  I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

  4.2 · 39 votes · 80 reads

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• Society

  I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short ye

  4.2 · 34 votes · 120 reads

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• Various

  I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  4.5 · 46 votes · 43 reads

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  I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

  4.8 · 33 votes · 140 reads

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• Various

  I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

  3.6 · 5 votes · 95 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  3.8 · 52 votes · 67 reads

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• Feelings

  I shall always be a priest of love.

  4.0 · 35 votes · 123 reads

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• Various

  I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  4.4 · 30 votes · 156 reads

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• Nature

  It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

  4.0 · 41 votes · 130 reads

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• Feelings

  Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  3.1 · 58 votes · 61 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  4.0 · 11 votes · 176 reads

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• Feelings

  Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

  3.5 · 8 votes · 140 reads

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• Feelings

  My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

  3.3 · 21 votes · 98 reads

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• Virtues

  My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  4.6 · 63 votes · 105 reads

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• Society

  My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind -intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfec

  5.0 · 51 votes · 44 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  4.7 · 55 votes · 128 reads

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• Various

  Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

  3.5 · 58 votes · 0 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  4.6 · 11 votes · 101 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  3.8 · 41 votes · 176 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

  4.8 · 18 votes · 44 reads

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• Nature

  The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  4.5 · 19 votes · 83 reads

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• Various

  The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

  4.0 · 16 votes · 119 reads

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• Nature

  The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  3.3 · 5 votes · 127 reads

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• Nature

  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.

  4.5 · 34 votes · 96 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  4.1 · 10 votes · 64 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  3.9 · 48 votes · 146 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  3.8 · 45 votes · 14 reads

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• Nature

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

  4.9 · 29 votes · 11 reads

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• Nature

  The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.

  3.6 · 25 votes · 120 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

  3.0 · 19 votes · 69 reads

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• Feelings

  The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

  4.4 · 30 votes · 162 reads

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• Nature

  The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  4.5 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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