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A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

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That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

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The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

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Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

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Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

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In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

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The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

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The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

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Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

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We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

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Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

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