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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

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I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

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To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

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She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

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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 to a horror.

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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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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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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

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In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

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Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

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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 humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

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Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

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But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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