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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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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

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Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

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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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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

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I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

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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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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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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

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You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

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I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

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Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

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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 grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

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