The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.
So long as you don’t feel life’s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.
There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
A man will part with anything so long as he’s drunk, and you’re drunk with him.
How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won’t sell at any price?
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don’t sit down without one of the gods.
Yea, Paris is a festive ton – a festive Ton for all! Skate o’er on joy – Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell’s beneath?
In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.
Money is the seal and stamp of success.
Love’s a dog in a manger.
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
When man has nothing but his will to assert – even his good-will – it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.
The east is not for me – the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.