Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.


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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would ...
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to...
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and...
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it ...
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the str...
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is a...
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar...
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins ...
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with t...
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positi...
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of...
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intui...
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with se...
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly...
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit...
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness an...
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Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays.
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Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and belie...
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ...
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us...
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness...
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain...
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say,...
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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intu...
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intui...
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Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures ar...
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever ha...
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuit...
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One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in...
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitut...
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping ...
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about...
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are lik...
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a ...
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is...
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks...
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable o...
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, t...
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a go...
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ...
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always ...
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only ...
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void P...
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be maste...
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs...
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live marr...
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo...
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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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...
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