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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

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How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

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When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

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The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

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I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

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Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

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The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

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You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

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Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

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

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