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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.

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The goal is to know how not-to-know.

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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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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The dead don't die. They look on and help.

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You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

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and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

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Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

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Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

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Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

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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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Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

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He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

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