Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
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.
Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
It’s hard to ravish a tin of sardines.
Hate’s a growing thing like anything else. It’s the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one’s deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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.
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
My God, these folks don’t know how to love – that’s why they love so easily.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.