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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

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Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

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If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

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I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

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It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

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If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

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Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

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The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

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Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

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There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

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We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

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It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

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