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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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I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

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Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

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One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

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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.

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Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

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The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

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Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

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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.

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

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Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

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And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

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